Yolanda
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Variante de Violante; difundido por santas y beatas con este nombre
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʝolanda/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Yolanda is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Ecuador it is the 45th most common given name.
- PEPeru≈1 in 458(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 548
- COColombia≈1 in 587
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Yolanda itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #488 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 457 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 458 (inferred from the name graph)
≈500,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Peru, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
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(measured from records)
Yolanda counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈500,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Yolanda | 43 |
| US United States | #746 | 135,779 | 1 in 2.5K | 136K | Yolanda | 457 |
| PH Philippines | #314 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Yolanda | 94 |
| ES Spain | #49 | 91,325 | 1 in 548 | 92K | Yolanda | 227 |
| CO Colombia | #151 | ≈84,000 est. | ≈1 in 587 | 32 | Yolanda | 133 |
| PE Peru | #66 | ≈70,000 est. | ≈1 in 458 | — | Yolanda | 85 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 33,314as Jolanda | 1 in 519 | 33K | Yolanda | 62 |
| EC Ecuador | #45 | 21,639 | 1 in 781 | 22K | Yolanda | 64 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — civil registry names; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Yolande of Anjoub. 1428FRnot in their usual nameDuchess of Lorraine
- Yolanda Kingb. 1955USAmerican activist (1955-2007)
- Yolanda Saldívarb. 1960USAmerican convicted murderer
- Yolanda Adamsb. 1961USAmerican gospel singer
- Yolanda Hadidb. 1964NLAmerican television personality and former model
- Yolanda Venturab. 1968ESSpanish actress
- Yolanda Ramosb. 1968ESSpanish actress
- Yolanda Griffithb. 1970USAmerican basketball player (born 1970)
- Yolanda Díazb. 1971ESSpanish politician and lawyer (born 1971)
- Isabela Mercedb. 2001USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress and singer (born 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 88 sources across 50 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 136K | #419 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 92K | #56 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 91K | #108 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 22K | #96 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 3.4K | #952 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 198 | #419 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 49 | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 32 | #89 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1990 | 9 | — |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Yolanda?
- In the etymology graph, Jolanta, Yolande and Iolanda are forms of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Yolanda mean?
- Recorded meaning: Variante de Violante; difundido por santas y beatas con este nombre.
- 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.
- In which country does Yolanda have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 496 thousand people named Yolanda in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yolanda.
- How common is the name Yolanda?
- In the United States, the national register counted 135,779 people named Yolanda in 2020, about 1 in 2.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Yolanda compared with other names?
- In Ecuador, Yolanda is the 45th most common given name of 27,061 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Yolanda?
- A machine transcription gives /ʝolanda/ (IPA) for Spanish.
What do you want to know about Yolanda?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yolandaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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 45th most common given name in Ecuador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.