Jolanta
given name · Polish · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jolanta is a given name, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country, where it is the 60th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Polish and Lithuanian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a female given name, equivalent to English Yolanda.
- PLPoland1 in 164◐
- ESSpain1 in 548
- USUnited States1 in 2.5K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈551K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 221 ●
- 1 in 157 ◐
across 18 countries
recorded for this name
66K records
Official registry-verified
Lithuania
Spellings & scripts●
3 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Yolanda in EC Ecuador, PE Peru, SK Slovakia and 2 more, Иоланта in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, TR Türkiye, Іоланта in UA Ukraine and Iolanda in HR Croatia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
a female given name, equivalent to English Yolanda
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | #60 | 233,614△ | 25K rec. | 1 in 164 | 234K | Jolanta | 173 |
| US United States | — | 135,581△ | 23K rec. | 1 in 2.5K | 136K | Jolanta | 221 |
| ES Spain | — | 91,325△ | 2.3K rec. | 1 in 548 | 92K | Jolanta | 35 |
| BR Brazil | — | 41,850△ | 39 rec. | 1 in 5.1K | 54K | Jolanta | 20 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 21,639△ | 25 rec. | 1 in 781 | 22K | Yolanda | 9 |
| LT Lithuania | — | 17,400△ | 5 rec. | 1 in 157 | 17K | — | 2 |
| RU Russia | — | 8,894 | 3.4K rec. | — | #1,495 | Иоланта | 106 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 3,327△ | 4 rec. | 1 in 1.5K | 3.3K | — | 6 |
| LV Latvia | — | 3,257△ | 231 rec. | 1 in 578 | 3.3K | Jolanta | 43 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 3,187 | 2.3K rec. | — | 4 | Jolanta | 105 |
| UA Ukraine | #973 | 2,708 | 2.7K rec. | — | — | Іоланта | 23 |
| FR France | — | 2,217 | 1.8K rec. | — | 580 | Jolanta | 123 |
Roughly 234K people in Poland bear this name (about 1 in 164). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Polish1.2M91%
- Lithuanian59K5%
- English19K1%
- German8.6K1%
- Latvian4.2K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Polish | 1,175,819 | 91% |
| Lithuanian | 58,971 | 5% |
| English | 19,115 | 1% |
| German | 8,601 | 1% |
| Latvian | 4,243 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Jolanta is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Jolanta går tillbaka på ett grekiskt namn, troligen sammansatt av íon ’viol’ och ánthos ’blomma’. Jolanta förefaller vara en främst slavisk och baltisk form, medan namnet i engelskan och spanskan ofta skrivs Yolanda (-e). Namnet har också sammanfallit med fornfranskans Iolente, en romansk form av det germanska Odelinde.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In Polish, Yolanta, Yolande
as a namePolish Personal Names (CIA Foreign Names Studies, ch. 24)
Violeta
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1955 | 4 |
| 1956 | 8 |
| 1957 | 12 |
| 1958 | 9 |
| 1959 | 11 |
| 1960 | 14 |
| 1961 | 24 |
| 1962 | 20 |
| 1963 | 26 |
| 1964 | 19 |
| 1965 | 26 |
| 1966 | 24 |
| 1967 | 25 |
| 1968 | 35 |
| 1969 | 16 |
| 1970 | 23 |
| 1971 | 28 |
| 1972 | 20 |
| 1973 | 21 |
| 1974 | 21 |
| 1975 | 22 |
| 1976 | 21 |
| 1977 | 22 |
| 1978 | 18 |
| 1979 | 19 |
| 1980 | 16 |
| 1981 | 14 |
| 1982 | 11 |
| 1983 | 12 |
| 1984 | 12 |
| 1985 | 14 |
| 1986 | 17 |
| 1987 | 10 |
| 1988 | 15 |
| 1989 | 9 |
| 1990 | 7 |
| 1991 | 6 |
| 1992 | 7 |
NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 38 years between 1955–1992. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Jolanta Umeckab. 1937PLPolish actress
- Jolanta Lotheb. 1942PLPolish actress (1942–2022)
- Krystyna Jandab. 1952PLnot in their usual namePolish actress
- Jolanta Szymanek-Dereszb. 1954PLPolish politician (1954-2010)
- Jolanta Kwaśniewskab. 1955PLPolish lawyer and charity activist
- Jolanta Dylewskab. 1958PLPolish cinematographer
- Jolanta Fedakb. 1960PLPolish politician
- Jolanta Bartczakb. 1964PLPolish long jumper
- Jolanta Fraszyńskab. 1968PLPolish actress
- Jolanta Ogarb. 1982PLPolish sailor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 43 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 234K | #24 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 234K | #24 |
| LT Lithuania | Registrų centras — top-50 given names | — | 17K | #45 |
| LT Lithuania | Registrų centras — Populiariausi naujagimių vardai | — | 17K | #45 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.3K | #5,253 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 3.3K | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 3.3K | #170 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 2.2K | #1,007 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1.3K | #1,449 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 897 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 894 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 886 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 245 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Jolanta?
- We estimate roughly 551 thousand people bear Jolanta (counting its spellings and scripts) across 18 countries in our records.
- In which country does Jolanta have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 234 thousand people bear Jolanta in Poland, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled jolanta.
- Where is Jolanta most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jolanta is densest in Lithuania — about 1 in 157 people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Jolanta compared with other names?
- In Poland, Jolanta is the 60th most common given name of 66,904 given names recorded there.
- Is Jolanta a male or female name?
- Jolanta is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Jolanta mean?
- Recorded meaning: a female given name, equivalent to English Yolanda
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jolanta” — the 60th most common given name in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.