Iolanda
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Etimologia incerta; forma francese Yolande, accolta in area italiana per influenze dinastiche
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 27 countries · latest register: ISTAT, 2024
/jolɐ̃dɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Iolanda is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 5.1K(measured from records)
- PTPortugal≈1 in 5.1K
- ITItaly≈1 in 6.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 129 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.1K (inferred from the name graph)
41,850 people, 2022
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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)Etimologia incerta; forma francese Yolande, accolta in area italiana per influenze dinastiche.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Iolanda 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.
41,850 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); the pt-irn-lista-nomes register; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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)Iolanda 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 Italian, In franceee Polende, Yolande; per vari parentadi fii accolto nella Casa di Savoia (Iolanda moglie di Amedeo IX, m. 1478). Etimologia iiicerta. Una B. Yolende franceee (in latinn rolendis), sec. XIII; 17 dicembre. In Portogallo i : venerata una B. Yolanda, o Violante.
as a nameNomi e Cognomi: Saggio di ricerche etimologiche e storiche
Jacinto, flor de color púrpura
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Italian, a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Yolanda
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Princess Iolanda, Countess of Bergolob. 1901ITItalian Royal (1901-1986)
- Iolanda Chenb. 1913RURussian cinematographer (1913–2006)
- Iolanda Mărculescub. 1923RORomanian opera singer
- Jula de Palmab. 1931ITnot in their usual nameItalian singer
- Dalidab. 1933EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian-French singer and actress (1933-1987)
- Iolanda Balașb. 1936RORomanian high jumper (1936-2016)
- Iolanda Nannib. 1968ITItalian politician (1968-2018)
- Iolanda Batalléb. 1971ESCatalan writer, journalist, publisher and teacher
- Iolanda Pensab. 1975CHItalian and Swiss art critic, writer and researcher
- Iolandab. 1994PTPortuguese singer-songwriter
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)46 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 54K | #742 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 54K | #278 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 42K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 42K | #644 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 351 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 185 | #644 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 162 | #13,547 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 19 | #615 |
| PT Portugal | IRN — Lista de Nomes Próprios admitidos | — | — | — |
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 Iolanda?
- In the etymology graph, Yolanda, Jolanta and Yolande are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Iolanda?
- A machine transcription gives /jolɐ̃dɐ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- Is Iolanda a male or female name?
- Iolanda is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Brazil (IBGE), Spain (INE) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- What does the name Iolanda mean?
- Recorded meaning: Etimologia incerta; forma francese Yolande, accolta in area italiana per influenze dinastiche.
- In which country does Iolanda have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 42 thousand people named Iolanda, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled iolanda.
- Where is Iolanda most common?
- Iolanda is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Iolanda?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 41,850 people named Iolanda in 2022, about 1 in 5.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Iolanda compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Iolanda is the 455th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/iolandaThe 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, “Iolanda” — the 455th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.