Roldan

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Rolando in PH Philippines, US United States, PE Peru and 14 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●

Attested across 21 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◐

Roldan is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate surname12K records spelled Roldan7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, Spain, United Kingdom

  Also written Roldán, Rol-Dan, Roldän, Róldan, Roldàn

• Swahili surname2.5K records spelled Roldan6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Spain, Peru

  Also written Roldán, RoldÃn

• Norwegian surname772 records spelled Roldan11 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Spain, Denmark

  Languages: Norwegian, Danish, Swedish

  Also written Roldán, Röldän, Roldàn

• Croatian surname764 records spelled Roldan14 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Argentina, Spain, Philippines

  Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

  Also written Roldán, Ролдан, RoldÃn

49 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●

Roldan is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Galician, third-person plural present indicative of roldar

  as a word·kaikki.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●

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 124 years between 1900–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Gustavo Roldanb. 1935ARArgentinian writer (1935-2012)
• Paul Roldanb. 1944USAmerican housing reformer
• Dennis Roldanb. 1956PHFilipino actor, basketball player, politician and businessman
• Oscar E. Roldanb. 1956CRPh.D. Carleton University 1983
• Nicolas Roldanb. 1982USArgentine polo player
• Cristian Roldanb. 1995USAmerican soccer player
• Alex Roldanb. 1996USSalvadorean-American soccer player
• Mara Roldanb. 2004CACanadian cyclist
• Xavier Montoya RoldanESSpanish politician
• erika roldanCAauthor and activist

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 · 355 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Roldan?

We estimate roughly 284 thousand people bear Roldan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.

In which country does Roldan have the most bearers?

Roldan is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled roldan.

Where is Roldan most common?

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

How common is Roldan compared with other names?

In Argentina, Roldan is the 276th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.

What does the name Roldan mean?

Recorded meaning: English; powerful, mighty