Rolly
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Rolly is a given name, most frequently recorded in the Philippines. It appears chiefly in English and Hindi, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Rolling; having the ability to roll, usually due to wheels attached on the bottom.
- PHPhilippines1 in 1.7K◐
- PEPeru1 in 62K
- USUnited States1 in 519K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈692 ●
- Sources
- 157 ●
- 1 in 463K ◐
across 4 countries
95K records
Official registry-verified
Costa Rica
Meaning & origin●
Rolling; having the ability to roll, usually due to wheels attached on the bottom.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #203 | 97,743 | 79K rec. | — | 67K | Rolly | 90 |
| PE Peru | — | 3,611 | 2.9K rec. | — | — | Rolly | 41 |
| US United States | — | 641 | 8.4K rec. | 1 in 519K | 641 | Rolly | 157 |
| CA Canada | — | 461 | 495 rec. | — | — | Rolly | 51 |
| AU Australia | — | 362 | 342 rec. | — | — | Rolly | 43 |
| TH Thailand | — | 328 | 190 rec. | — | — | Rolly | 17 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 318 | 310 rec. | — | — | Rolly | 46 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | 286 | 57 rec. | — | — | Rolly | 17 |
| AR Argentina | — | 275 | 224 rec. | — | 10 | Rolly | 23 |
| IN India | — | 204 | 106 rec. | — | 14 | Rolly | 39 |
| CL Chile | — | 172 | 20 rec. | — | 1 | Rolly | 19 |
| MX Mexico | — | 154 | 143 rec. | — | — | Rolly | 20 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English86K54%
- Hindi32K20%
- Spanish20K13%
- Indonesian9.1K6%
- Swahili3.8K2%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 86,053 | 54% |
| Hindi | 32,163 | 20% |
| Spanish | 20,331 | 13% |
| Indonesian | 9,107 | 6% |
| Swahili | 3,764 | 2% |
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●
Rolly 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 Filipino, a diminutive of the male given name Rolando
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 |
|---|---|
| 1897 | 1 |
| 1899 | 3 |
| 1902 | 1 |
| 1928 | 1 |
| 1930 | 1 |
| 1931 | 1 |
| 1935 | 1 |
| 1936 | 2 |
| 1938 | 1 |
| 1942 | 1 |
| 1944 | 1 |
| 1946 | 1 |
| 1947 | 2 |
| 1948 | 1 |
| 1949 | 1 |
| 1950 | 2 |
| 1951 | 2 |
| 1952 | 3 |
| 1953 | 3 |
| 1955 | 2 |
| 1957 | 2 |
| 1958 | 7 |
| 1959 | 3 |
| 1960 | 5 |
| 1961 | 3 |
| 1962 | 8 |
| 1963 | 9 |
| 1964 | 15 |
| 1965 | 11 |
| 1966 | 5 |
| 1967 | 17 |
| 1968 | 14 |
| 1969 | 23 |
| 1970 | 28 |
| 1971 | 27 |
| 1972 | 55 |
| 1973 | 45 |
| 1974 | 58 |
| 1975 | 60 |
| 1976 | 115 |
| 1977 | 138 |
| 1978 | 149 |
| 1979 | 168 |
| 1980 | 215 |
| 1981 | 246 |
| 1982 | 324 |
| 1983 | 425 |
| 1984 | 468 |
| 1985 | 497 |
| 1986 | 646 |
| 1987 | 642 |
| 1988 | 682 |
| 1989 | 741 |
| 1990 | 812 |
| 1991 | 1,099 |
| 1992 | 1,258 |
| 1993 | 1,482 |
| 1994 | 1,187 |
| 1995 | 1,332 |
| 1996 | 830 |
| 1997 | 833 |
| 1998 | 510 |
| 1999 | 3 |
| 2008 | 3 |
| 2010 | 32 |
| 2013 | 2 |
| 2014 | 10 |
| 2015 | 1 |
IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 68 years between 1897–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Rolly Crumpb. 1930USAmerican animator
- Rolly Schafferb. 1947ILIsraeli painter
- Leo Rolly Carnandob. 2001IDIndonesian badminton player
- Rolly B. Caballerobotanist
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 36 sources across 22 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 301 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Rolly?
- We estimate roughly 692 people bear Rolly (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
- In which country does Rolly have the most bearers?
- Rolly is most frequently recorded in the Philippines, where it is most often spelled rolly.
- How common is Rolly compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Rolly is the 203rd most common given name of 462,140 given names recorded there.
- Is Rolly a male or female name?
- Rolly is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What does the name Rolly mean?
- Recorded meaning: Rolling; having the ability to roll, usually due to wheels attached on the bottom.
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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, “Rolly” — the 203rd most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.