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Rolando

Rolando is a boy's name meaning "Spanish/Italian form of Roland", drawing on Spanish roots. It has cooled since its 1980s peak, though it is still chosen today. As things stand now, it is a distinctive, less common pick. Its single strongest year on record was 1994.

SpanishSpanish/Italian form of Roland
EtymologyMeaning "famous land"
Births by decade
1900s
0
1910s
18
1920s
93
1930s
197
1940s
419
1950s
1,616
1960s
2,657
1970s
3,690
1980s
4,250
1990s
4,091
2000s
4,232
2010s
1,951
Peaked in the 1980s · 23,214 total U.S. births since 1900