Boy
Roland
As a boy's name, Roland is understood to mean "famous land". It is not as common as it was in the 1920s, though it has not disappeared. Today, it is comfortably in the mainstream in the registry. Its single strongest year on record was 1924.
GermanicGermanic "hrod" (fame) + "land"
EtymologyMeaning "famous land"
Births by decade
1900s
1,316
1910s
8,827
1920s
16,977
1930s
15,079
1940s
13,110
1950s
12,353
1960s
9,720
1970s
5,538
1980s
4,247
1990s
3,115
2000s
2,663
2010s
3,212
Peaked in the 1920s · 96,157 total U.S. births since 1900