Rolands

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Roland in US United States, DE Germany, GB United Kingdom and 16 more, Роланд in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, ZW Zimbabwe, Rolandas in LT Lithuania, NO Norway and Ролан in KZ Kazakhstan.

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●

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Rolands is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name296 records spelled Rolands5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Latvia, Peru, United States, United Kingdom

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Roland'S

39 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●

Rolands is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Latvian, viens no slavenākiem franču episko teiku varoņiem, kuri pulcējas ap Kārli Lielo; kristīgas bruņniecības ideāls

  as a word·Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

• In Latvian, Vīrieša vārds

  as a word·Tēzaurs.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●

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 11 years between 2010–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Rolands Kalniņšb. 1922LVLatvian and Soviet film director
• Rolands Upatnieksb. 1932LVLatvian luger
• Rolands Zagorskisb. 1949LVSoviet and Latvian actor
• Rolands Buldersb. 1965LVLatvian footballer
• Rolands Tjarveb. 1966LVSoviet Latvian journalist and TV executive
• Rolands Broksb. 1969LVLatvian politician
• Rolands Bērziņšb. 1975LVInternational Chess Master
• Rolands Freimanisb. 1988LVLatvian basketball player (born 1988)
• Rolands Štrobindersb. 1992LVLatvian athletics competitor
• Rolands Šmitsb. 1995LVLatvian basketball player (born 1995)

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 47 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Rolands?

We estimate roughly 274 thousand people bear Rolands (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.

In which country does Rolands have the most bearers?

Rolands is most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is most often spelled roland.

Where is Rolands most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Rolands is densest in Hungary — about 1 in 270 people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.

How common is Rolands compared with other names?

In Germany, Rolands is the 93rd most common given name of 154,506 given names recorded there.

Is Rolands a male or female name?

Rolands 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 Rolands mean?

Recorded meaning: koka vai akmens statuja, kas viduslaikos atradās vairākās Eiropas (gk.