Roldán
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Roland (character from medieval legend)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/rold̪an/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Roldán is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country, where it is the 64th most common surname.
- ARArgentina1 in 550(measured from records)
- ECEcuador1 in 1.3K
- ESSpain1 in 1.5K
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.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 338 (measured from records)
- 1 in 550 (inferred from the name graph)
82,751 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Roldan in AR Argentina, US United States, ES Spain and 4 more.
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)
Roland (character from medieval legend)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Roldán 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #64 | 82,751 | 1 in 550 | 83K | Roldan | 117 |
| ES Spain | #113 | 33,892 | 1 in 1.5K | 34K | Roldan | 175 |
| PH Philippines | #187 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | 42K | Roldan | 107 |
| CO Colombia | #295 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | 16 | Roldan | 135 |
| US United States | — | 13,498 | 1 in 25K | 14K | Roldan | 338 |
| EC Ecuador | #206 | 13,174 | 1 in 1.3K | 13K | Roldan | 51 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 4,485 | 1 in 755 | 4.5K | Roldán | 34 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #133 | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Roldan | 41 |
82,751 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Top 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking; the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — civil registry names; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Roldán is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, germánico Ruotland: 'gloria del país' o 'el del país glorioso'.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
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)
- Amadeo Roldánb. 1900FRCuban musician (1900-1939)
- Enrique Roldánb. 1901ARArgentine actor
- Pilar Roldánb. 1939MXMexican fencer
- Luis Roldánb. 1943ESSpanish politician (1943–2022)
- Antonio Roldánb. 1946MXMexican boxer
- Ángel Nietob. 1947ESnot in their usual nameSpanish motorcycle racer
- Juan Pablo Montoyab. 1975COnot in their usual nameColombian racing driver; former Formula One driver
- Wilmar Roldánb. 1980COColombian football referee corrupt
- Walter Ervitib. 1980ARnot in their usual nameArgentine football player and manager
- Camila Bordonabab. 1984ARnot in their usual nameArgentine actress
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 1 | #115 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname 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 Roldán mean, and where does it come from?
- Roland (character from medieval legend) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Roldán?
- A machine transcription gives /rold̪an/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What are other forms of the name Roldán?
- In the etymology graph, Rowley and Rolland are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Roldán have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 83 thousand people named Roldán, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled roldan.
- Where is Roldán most common?
- Roldán is densest in Argentina, where the national register counts about 1 in 550 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Roldán?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 82,751 people named Roldán, about 1 in 550 residents.
- How common is Roldán compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Roldán is the 64th most common surname of 398,256 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Roldán?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rold%C3%A1nThe 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, “Roldán” — the 64th most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.