Rolando

given name · Spanish · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Rolando is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina. In the Philippines it is the 29th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a male given name from Proto-Germanic.

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina1 in 429◐
  • PHPhilippines1 in 434
  • FRFrance1 in 512

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈284K ●

across 13 countries

4 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
385 ●

2.3M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 270 ◐

Hungary

Spellings & scripts●

RolandoLatin · Spanish●1.5M records
РоландоCyrillic · Russian●226 records
ᲠოლანდოGeorgian · Georgian●2 records
ΡολάντοGreek · Greek●1 records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Roldan in AR Argentina, ES Spain, FR France and 4 more and Roland in NL Netherlands, BE Belgium, CH Switzerland.

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 male given name from Proto-Germanic

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Rolando is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#2761,092,064720K rec.—83KRoldan109
PH Philippines#29402,608382K rec.—42KRolando125
PE Peru#128280,051243K rec.——Rolando108
MX Mexico#300262,067223K rec.—886Rolando184
FR France—132,475△2.9K rec.1 in 512132KRoldan172
CL Chile#21683,1066.4K rec.—10Rolando111
VE Venezuela#51556,38734K rec.——Rolando65
US United States—51,536333K rec.1 in 6.5K52KRolando385
SE Sweden—36,581△563 rec.1 in 27937K—29
HU Hungary—36,240△466 rec.1 in 27036KRolando15
CO Colombia—32,57318K rec.—16Roldan128
GT Guatemala#3429,65038K rec.——Rolando69

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Spanish1.5M74%
  • English248K12%
  • Portuguese44K2%
  • 33K2%
  • Indonesian14K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish1,543,99474%
English248,11012%
Portuguese43,5292%
33,2382%
Indonesian13,5081%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Rolando is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name279K records spelled Rolando22 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Venezuela, Ecuador

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Ro'Lando, Rólando, Rölåndô, Rölāndō, Rôlandô

  • French surname12K records spelled Rolando9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Canada

    Languages: French, Catalan, Hungarian

    Also written Rolland, Rôĺĺañd, Rollând

  • Thai given name3.4K records spelled Rolando5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, Thailand, United States, Philippines

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written Rôlàndô, Rolándó, Rólándó

68 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Rolando is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Spanish, del francés Roland; forma emparentada con Roldán y Orlando.

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

  • In Italian, forma italiana de Rolandus

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • In French, Forme italienne/espagnole de Roland.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • In German, männl. Vom., italienische Form von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • In Italian, Variante di Rolandi

    as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani

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●

0200400600192019401960198020002020473 · 1994

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Rolando in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1916–2025
Yearrecords
19165
19187
19196
19205
19218
192210
19235
192410
19259
192612
19278
192811
192915
193010
193116
193225
193314
193421
193522
193617
193723
193832
193917
194030
194120
194240
194330
194429
194534
194658
194761
194856
194961
195074
1951123
1952139
1953143
1954154
1955170
1956186
1957215
1958190
1959224
1960271
1961259
1962265
1963252
1964253
1965291
1966262
1967264
1968281
1969254
1970323
1971348
1972320
1973325
1974360
1975423
1976342
1977372
1978395
1979455
1980459
1981446
1982385
1983429
1984441
1985403
1986422
1987408
1988431
1989395
1990386
1991391
1992403
1993393
1994473
1995441
1996384
1997404
1998435
1999365
2000430
2001446
2002417
2003405
2004453
2005431
2006438
2007452
2008415
2009345
2010319
2011277
2012236
2013250
2014238
2015217
2016224
2017194
2018178
2019174
2020157
2021172
2022163
2023163
2024155
2025135

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 109 years between 1916–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

100012001400160018002000Alexander III, b. 1100Rolando Blackman, b. 1959Rolando Maran, b. 1963Rolando Ravello, b. 1969Rolando Villazón, b. 1972Rolando Fonseca, b. 1974Rolando Bianchi, b. 1983Rolando, b. 1985Bruno Martins Indi, b. 1992Rolando Mandragora, b. 1997

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 94 sources across 48 countries.

Official registers attesting Rolando
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202040K#1,053
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20249.6K#202
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—5K#148
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—2.9K—
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.8K#1,843
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1.6K#887
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—1.3K#7,691
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20221.2K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.2K#7,462
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020928#27,513
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010913#26,671
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000880#26,147

Reference works 7

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 888 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Rolando?
We estimate roughly 284 thousand people bear Rolando (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
In which country does Rolando have the most bearers?
Rolando is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled roldan.
Where is Rolando most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Rolando is densest in Hungary — about 1 in 270 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
How common is Rolando compared with other names?
In Argentina, Rolando is the 276th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
Is Rolando a male or female name?
Rolando is a male 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 Rolando mean?
Recorded meaning: a male given name from Proto-Germanic
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Rolando” — the 276th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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