Yolanda

given name · Spanish · Latin script

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

Yolanda is a given name, most frequently recorded in Mexico, where it is the 63rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Variante de Violante; difundido por santas y beatas con este nombre.

rarermore common
  • MXMexico1 in 342◐
  • ESSpain1 in 548
  • PEPeru1 in 667

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

≈329K ●

across 10 countries

#670 ●

of 16M given names

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
415 ●

2.6M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 522 ◐

Netherlands

Spellings & scripts●

YolandaLatin · Spanish●3.6M records
יולנדהHebrew · Hebrew●6.6K records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled יולנדה in IL Israel, LB Lebanon.

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●

recorded in Spanish

Variante de Violante; difundido por santas y beatas con este nombre.

Sources 1

  • Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Yolanda is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MX Mexico#63928,794784K rec.—3.9KYolanda203
AR Argentina#217696,664466K rec.—20Yolanda94
PE Peru#83338,077278K rec.——Yolanda78
VE Venezuela#123202,557105K rec.——Yolanda65
US United States#720135,581379K rec.1 in 2.5K136KYolanda415
CL Chile#170102,1427.1K rec.—6Yolanda81
ES Spain#6291,325189K rec.1 in 54892KYolanda211
PH Philippines#23984,54579K rec.——Yolanda88
CO Colombia#14168,62839K rec.—32Yolanda128
BR Brazil—41,85029K rec.1 in 5.1K54KYolanda129
NL Netherlands—33,118△1.8K rec.1 in 52233KYolanda65
EC Ecuador#12921,639△1.8K rec.1 in 78122KYolanda61

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

Languages●

  • Spanish3.6M60%
  • English1.5M24%
  • Portuguese240K4%
  • 141K2%
  • Catalan91K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish3,588,11660%
English1,453,33724%
Portuguese240,2344%
141,4422%
Catalan91,3552%

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◐

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

  • English given name1.6M records spelled Yolanda17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Venezuela, United Kingdom, Netherlands

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Yolánda, Yõlãñdã, Yöländä, Yolandà, Ýolandä

  • Indonesian given name63K records spelled Yolanda4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, Philippines, Spain

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Yolanda

  • Polish given name16K records spelled Yolanda84 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States, Russia, Spain

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

    Also written Jolanta, Иоланта, Іоланта, Иоланда, 'Jolanta

  • Lao given name6.6K records spelled Yolanda3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, United States, Thailand, Spain

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written โยลันดา

73 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●

Yolanda 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 Swedish, Se Jolanta.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • The go-getter.

    as a nameThe African book of names

  • Violeta

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

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●

01K2K3K4K195020003.8K · 1969

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Yolanda in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1901–2025
Yearrecords
19019
190211
190313
190410
190525
190616
190722
190835
190933
191039
191163
191284
1913108
1914172
1915251
1916292
1917338
1918306
1919326
1920321
1921356
1922450
1923603
1924573
1925542
1926449
1927378
1928411
1929349
1930351
1931325
1932261
1933220
1934238
1935251
1936293
1937339
1938333
1939312
1940352
1941369
1942440
1943475
1944561
1945771
19461,200
19471,379
19481,364
19491,408
19501,567
19511,637
19521,775
19531,808
19541,960
19552,056
19562,276
19572,327
19582,258
19592,285
19602,329
19612,514
19622,458
19632,579
19642,763
19652,759
19662,772
19672,798
19683,697
19693,771
19703,591
19713,721
19723,398
19732,754
19742,632
19752,655
19762,273
19772,122
19781,951
19791,934
19801,776
19811,565
19821,439
19831,209
19841,069
19851,043
1986882
1987895
1988799
1989713
1990672
1991606
1992597
1993578
1994468
1995415
1996378
1997353
1998288
1999274
2000295
2001246
2002228
2003224
2004211
2005214
2006233
2007199
2008172
2009163
2010134
2011119
2012134
2013105
2014123
2015109
201699
2017113
201897
201984
202065
202154
202254
202360
202468
202549

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 125 years between 1901–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

14001600180020002200Yolande of Anjou, b. 1428Yolanda King, b. 1955Yolanda Saldívar, b. 1960Yolanda Adams, b. 1961Yolanda Hadid, b. 1964Yolanda Ventura, b. 1968Yolanda Ramos, b. 1968Yolanda Griffith, b. 1970Yolanda Díaz, b. 1971Isabela Merced, b. 2001

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 87 sources across 50 countries.

Official registers attesting Yolanda
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020136K#419
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—92K#56
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—91K#108
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202422K#96
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—12K#1,959
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20229.9K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—9.8K#1,732
MX MexicoRENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset)—3.9K#12
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—3.4K#952
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—3.3K#242
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2009580#3,240
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—388#3,291

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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 · 937 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Yolanda?
We estimate roughly 329 thousand people bear Yolanda (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Yolanda have the most bearers?
Yolanda is most frequently recorded in Mexico, where it is most often spelled yolanda.
How common is Yolanda compared with other names?
In Mexico, Yolanda is the 63rd most common given name of 191,605 given names recorded there.
Is Yolanda a male or female name?
Yolanda is a female 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 Yolanda mean?
Recorded meaning: Variante de Violante; difundido por santas y beatas con este nombre.
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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, “Yolanda” — the 63rd most common given name in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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