Roly
given name · Spanish · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Roly is a given name, most frequently recorded in Peru. In Bolivia it is the 58th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A diminutive of the male given name Roland.
- BOBolivia1 in 4.6K◐
- PEPeru1 in 18K
- PHPhilippines1 in 61K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈302 ●
- Sources
- 98 ●
- 1 in 300K ◐
across 4 countries
19K records
Official registry-verified
Costa Rica
Meaning & origin●
A diminutive of the male given name Roland.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 9 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | — | 12,489 | 10K rec. | — | — | Roly | 46 |
| PH Philippines | — | 2,741 | 2.1K rec. | — | — | Roly | 27 |
| BO Bolivia | #58 | 1,915 | 1.6K rec. | — | — | Roly | 30 |
| AR Argentina | — | 1,795 | 969 rec. | — | 2 | Roly | 32 |
| MX Mexico | — | 464 | 462 rec. | — | — | Roly | 27 |
| CL Chile | — | 386 | 122 rec. | — | 1 | Roly | 25 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 274 | 282 rec. | — | listed | Roly | 67 |
| AU Australia | — | 222 | 224 rec. | — | — | Roly | 30 |
| US United States | — | 170 | 1.9K rec. | 1 in 2M | 170 | Roly | 98 |
| IN India | — | 97 | 41 rec. | — | listed | Roly | 13 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 76 | 85 rec. | — | — | Roly | 8 |
| CA Canada | — | 74 | 96 rec. | — | — | Roly | 22 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Spanish19K68%
- English3.5K13%
- Indonesian9083%
- Portuguese8403%
- French5422%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Spanish | 18,632 | 68% |
| English | 3,469 | 13% |
| Indonesian | 908 | 3% |
| Portuguese | 840 | 3% |
| French | 542 | 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●
Roly is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Old English; from the rough meadow
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Pet form of Roland. See also pRowley.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
English: pet form of ROLAND . See also ROWLEY .
as a word
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 |
|---|---|
| 1959 | 3 |
| 1968 | 2 |
| 1975 | 2 |
| 1979 | 4 |
| 1980 | 3 |
| 1981 | 5 |
| 1982 | 4 |
| 1983 | 12 |
| 1984 | 11 |
| 1985 | 22 |
| 1986 | 17 |
| 1987 | 20 |
| 1988 | 29 |
| 1989 | 15 |
| 1990 | 13 |
| 1991 | 6 |
| 1992 | 17 |
| 1993 | 12 |
| 1994 | 2 |
| 1995 | 5 |
| 1996 | 6 |
| 1997 | 3 |
| 1998 | 2 |
| 2003 | 2 |
| 2007 | 3 |
| 2009 | 5 |
| 2013 | 2 |
AR RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) — 27 years between 1959–2013. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Roly Harperb. 1881GBEnglish footballer (1881-1949)
- Roly Jenkinsb. 1918GBEnglish Test and County cricketer (1918-1995)
- Roly Thompsonb. 1932GBcricketer (1932-2003)
- Roly Millsb. 1933GBEnglish footballer (1933-2010)
- Roly Horreyb. 1943GBFootballer (born 1943)
- Roly MacIntyreb. 1943CACanadian politician
- Roly Gregoireb. 1958GBEnglish footballer (born 1958)
- Roly Westb. 1990GBBritish commentary YouTuber and vlogger
- Roly Bonevaciab. 1991NLDutch association football player
- Roly CrichtonNZNew Zealand Paralympian
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 25 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 170 | #39,641 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 119 | #55,507 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 113 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 73 | #19,829 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 66 | #22,073 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 59 | #11,292 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 49 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 47 | #67,613 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 30 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 1988 | 29 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 1988 | 29 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 29 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 · 188 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Roly?
- We estimate roughly 302 people bear Roly (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
- In which country does Roly have the most bearers?
- Roly is most frequently recorded in Peru, where it is most often spelled roly.
- How common is Roly compared with other names?
- In Bolivia, Roly is the 58th most common given name of 14,901 given names recorded there.
- Is Roly a male or female name?
- Roly 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 Roly mean?
- Recorded meaning: A diminutive of the male given name Roland.
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Roly” — the 58th most common given name in Bolivia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.