Rolands
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rolands is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Latvia it is the 76th most common given name. Recorded meaning: koka vai akmens statuja, kas viduslaikos atradās vairākās Eiropas (gk.
- LVLatvia1 in 454(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 6.4Kas Roland
- PLPoland1 in 9.1Kas Roland
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Rolands 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 112 (measured from records)
- 1 in 454 (inferred from the name graph)
51,667 named Roland, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Roland in US United States, PL Poland.
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)
koka vai akmens statuja, kas viduslaikos atradās vairākās Eiropas (gk. Ziemeļvācijas) pilsētās, tās izcelsme un nozīme nav zināma
Sources 1
- Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rolands 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 51,667as Roland | 1 in 6.4K | 52K | Roland | 82 |
| SE Sweden | — | 36,581as Roland | 1 in 279 | 37K | Rolands | 9 |
| HU Hungary | — | 36,240as Roland | 1 in 270 | 36K | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | #689 | 4,195as Roland | 1 in 9.1K | 4.2K | Roland | 101 |
| LV Latvia | #76 | 4,142 | 1 in 454 | 4.1K | Rolands | 86 |
| AL Albania | — | 2,735as Roland | 1 in 1.1K | 2.7K | — | — |
| GY Guyana | — | 216as Roland | 1 in 3.5K | 216 | — | — |
51,667 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Rolands is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, viens no slavenākiem franču episko teiku varoņiem, kuri pulcējas ap Kārli Lielo; kristīgas bruņniecības ideāls
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Vīrieša vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Rolands Kalniņšb. 1922LVLatvian and Soviet film director
- Rolands Upatnieksb. 1932LVLatvian luger
- Rolands Zagorskisb. 1949LVSoviet and Latvian actor
- Rolands Buldersb. 1965LVLatvian footballer
- Rolands Tjarveb. 1966LVSoviet Latvian journalist and TV executive
- Rolands Broksb. 1969LVLatvian politician
- Rolands Bērziņšb. 1975LVInternational Chess Master
- Rolands Freimanisb. 1988LVLatvian basketball player (born 1988)
- Rolands Štrobindersb. 1992LVLatvian athletics competitor
- Rolands Šmitsb. 1995LVLatvian basketball player (born 1995)
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 25 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 4.1K | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 4.1K | #126 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 44 | #14,963 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 30 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 29 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 28 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 27 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 26 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 23 | #5,884 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 21 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 19 | #6,192 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 19 | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 does the name Rolands mean?
- Recorded meaning: koka vai akmens statuja, kas viduslaikos atradās vairākās Eiropas (gk.
- Is Rolands a male or female name?
- Rolands 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.
- What are other forms of the name Rolands?
- In the etymology graph, Roland is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Rolands have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 52 thousand people named Roland, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Rolands most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Rolands is densest in Latvia — about 1 in 454 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Rolands?
- In Latvia, the national register counted 4,142 people named Rolands, about 1 in 454 residents.
- How common is Rolands compared with other names?
- In Latvia, Rolands is the 76th most common given name of 11,601 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/rolandsThe 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, “Rolands” — the 76th most common given name in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.