Rolando
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rolando is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country, where it is the 43rd most common given name. Recorded meaning: a male given name from Proto-Germanic.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 344(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 739
- PYParaguay≈1 in 781
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 430 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 344 (inferred from the name graph)
≈320,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
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)
a male given name from Proto-Germanic
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rolando 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #43 | ≈320,000 est. | ≈1 in 344 | — | Rolando | 134 |
| PE Peru | #130 | ≈43,000 est. | ≈1 in 739 | — | Rolando | 119 |
| US United States | — | 39,805 | 1 in 8.4K | 40K | Rolando | 430 |
| AR Argentina | #257 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 2.9K | Rolando | 116 |
| BO Bolivia | #432 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 463 | — | Rolando | 64 |
| GT Guatemala | #12 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 829 | — | Rolando | 71 |
| PY Paraguay | #111 | ≈9,200 est. | ≈1 in 781 | — | Rolando | 45 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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)
Rolando is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, del francés Roland; forma emparentada con Roldán y Orlando.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
In Italian, forma italiana de Rolandus
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In French, Forme italienne/espagnole de Roland.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In German, männl. Vom., italienische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Italian, Variante di Rolandi
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
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)
- Alexander IIIb. 1100ITnot in their usual namepope of the Catholic Church from 1159 to 1181
- Rolando Blackmanb. 1959PAPanamanian-born American basketball player
- Rolando Maranb. 1963ITItalian association football player and manager
- Rolando Ravellob. 1969ITItalian actor
- Rolando Villazónb. 1972MXMexican naturalized French tenor
- Rolando Fonsecab. 1974CRCosta Rican footballer
- Rolando Bianchib. 1983ITItalian footballer
- Rolandob. 1985PTPortuguese footballer (born 1985)
- Bruno Martins Indib. 1992PTnot in their usual nameDutch association football player (born 1992)
- Rolando Mandragorab. 1997ITItalian footballer
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 98 sources across 49 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 40K | #1,053 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 135 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 77 | #1,053 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 19 | #1,628 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1995 | 5 | — |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 does the name Rolando mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name from Proto-Germanic Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Rolando?
- In the etymology graph, Roland, Roel and Rolan are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Rolando a male or female name?
- Rolando is a male 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 Rolando have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 317 thousand people named Rolando in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rolando.
- How common is the name Rolando?
- In the United States, the national register counted 39,805 people named Rolando in 2020, about 1 in 8.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Rolando compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Rolando is the 43rd most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rolandoThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Rolando” — the 43rd most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.