Rol
surname · French · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rol is a surname, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. It appears chiefly in French and Spanish, written in the Latin script.
- FRFrance1 in 595K◐
- NLNetherlands1 in 26K
- ESSpain1 in 83K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈2.0K ●
- Sources
- 177 ●
- 1 in 26K ◐
across 12 countries
5.8K records
Official registry-verified
Netherlands
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 5 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 676△ | 99 rec. | 1 in 26K | 676 | Rol | 21 |
| ES Spain | 600△ | 157 rec. | 1 in 83K | 600 | Rol | 19 |
| BR Brazil | 297 | — | 1 in 713K | 297 | — | — |
| PH Philippines | 173 | 168 rec. | — | — | Rol | 11 |
| US United States | 161 | 175 rec. | 1 in 2.1M | 167 | Rol | 35 |
| MY Malaysia | 142 | 180 rec. | — | — | Rol | 5 |
| FR France | 114 | 4.7K rec. | 1 in 595K | 114 | Rol | 177 |
| PL Poland | 53 | — | 1 in 722K | 53 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 45 | — | 1 in 1M | 45 | — | — |
| IT Italy | 35 | 49 rec. | — | — | Rol | 4 |
| DK Denmark | 13 | — | 1 in 451K | 13 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 12 | 16 rec. | 1 in 700K | 12 | Rol | 11 |
Roughly 676 people in Netherlands bear this name (about 1 in 26K). 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●
- French8K40%
- Spanish4.7K24%
- English2.5K13%
- Western Frisian6763%
- Catalan6003%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 7,973 | 40% |
| Spanish | 4,712 | 24% |
| English | 2,514 | 13% |
| Western Frisian | 676 | 3% |
| Catalan | 600 | 3% |
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●
Rol is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Khmer, sound of something rolling; of an animal struggling to escape. [filttnuiJCU[riCu]nU[fts'iaJ !3 l The ant has entered the ear struggles to get fCH]CU’iaJ to roll on a surface (of a body)
as a wordHeadley, Cambodian-English Dictionary, Volume II (ម-អ)
In sit-pro, fragile
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In sit-pro, sorcery
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In Dutch, role, function (as in actions or tasks that a person or a group is expected to perform)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, list (enumeration or compilation of items)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, roll (a list of people)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 |
|---|---|
| 1891 | 72 |
| 1901 | 117 |
| 1911 | 98 |
| 1921 | 175 |
| 1931 | 139 |
| 1941 | 178 |
| 1951 | 170 |
| 1961 | 159 |
| 1971 | 170 |
| 1981 | 138 |
| 1991 | 114 |
FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 11 years between 1891–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Marcel Rolb. 1876FRFrench photographer
- Cornelis Rolb. 1877NLDutch artist (1877–1963)
- Christian Rolb. 1901FRFrench writer and journalist
- Gustavo Adolfo Rolb. 1903ITItalian psychic
- Henricus Rolb. 1906NLDutch painter (1906-1992)
- Franco Rolb. 1908ITracecar driver
- Emile Rolb. 1920FRFrench racing cyclist
- Raymond Rolb. 1969NLDutch cyclist and sporting director
- Frederique Rolb. 1993CHSwiss rower
- Pablo Turturiellob. 1999UYnot in their usual nameUruguayan actor and singer
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 29 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 676 | #2,705 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 600 | #6,903 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 600 | #6,899 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 297 | #26,631 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 178 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 175 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 170 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 170 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 167 | #111,996 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 166 | #100,663 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 161 | #109,758 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 159 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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 · 49 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Rol?
- We estimate roughly 2.0 thousand people bear Rol (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
- In which country does Rol have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 676 people bear Rol in the Netherlands, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled rol.
- Where is Rol most common?
- Rol is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 26 thousand people carrying it.
Query this name via API
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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, “Rol”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.