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Roland
Pronounced /ˈɹoʊlənd/
Rank in 2024
#663
Born in 2024
413
Peak year
1924 · #98
Origin
Germanic
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 413 boys were named Roland, about 1 in every 4,153.
- It peaked in 1924 with 1,822 babies, ranked #98.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 100,364 boys have been named Roland since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Roland per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 1.4Greatest1901–27
- 1.3Silent1928–45
- 0.6Boomers1946–64
- 0.4Gen X1965–80
- 0.2Millennials1981–96
- 0.1Gen Z1997–12
- 0.3Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 23,352 babies, 1.40 per 1,000. Silent: 26,351 babies, 1.28 per 1,000. Boomers: 23,082 babies, 0.61 per 1,000. Gen X: 10,144 babies, 0.37 per 1,000. Millennials: 6,105 babies, 0.20 per 1,000. Gen Z: 4,331 babies, 0.14 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 5,547 babies, 0.26 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Old French, from Frankish *Hrōþiland (literally “fame-land”). Name of a paladin of Charlemagne in medieval French romance. Doublet of Orlando.
- A male given name from the Germanic languages.
- Origin
- Germanic
- Say it
- /ˈɹoʊlənd/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Roland, CC BY-SA 4.0.