Rollins
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Rollins is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: An English surname transferred from the given name of Anglo-Norman origin, from a diminutive of the given name Rollo.
- USUnited States1 in 9.5K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 13K
- ITItaly≈1 in 24K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 455 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Laos, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
An English surname transferred from the given name of Anglo-Norman origin, from a diminutive of the given name Rollo.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rollins 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 | — | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Rollins | 10 |
| US United States | #867 | 35,132 | 1 in 9.5K | 35K | Rollins | 455 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 1.6K | Rollins | 141 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Rollins | 12 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 24K | 1 | Rollins | 16 |
| LA Laos | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | — | Rollins | 4 |
| FI Finland | — | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 10 | — | 3 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Rollins | 16 |
| LB Lebanon | #805 | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Rollins | 4 |
| GY Guyana | — | 98 | 1 in 7.7K | 98 | — | 4 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Rollins 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 English, 'Son of little Rollo'.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
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)
- Jack Rollinsb. 1915USAmerican film producer (1915–2015)
- Sonny Rollinsb. 1930USAmerican jazz saxophonist and composer (1930–2026)
- Howard Rollinsb. 1950USAmerican stage, film and television actor (1950-1996)
- Tree Rollinsb. 1955USAmerican basketball player-coach
- Henry Rollinsb. 1961USAmerican musician
- Brooke Rollinsb. 1972USAmerican attorney and politician
- Rose Rollinsb. 1981USAmerican actress
- Seth Rollinsb. 1986USAmerican professional wrestler and actor
- Brianna McNealb. 1991USnot in their usual nameAmerican track and field athlete
- Ryan Rollinsb. 2002USAmerican basketball player (born 2002)
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 32 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 35K | #992 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 34K | #949 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 34K | #1,030 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 1.6K | #4,605 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 98 | #527 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Rollins mean, and where does it come from?
- An English surname transferred from the given name of Anglo-Norman origin, from a diminutive of the given name Rollo. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Rollins have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 109 thousand people named Rollins in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rollins.
- How common is the name Rollins?
- In the United States, the national register counted 35,132 people named Rollins in 2010, about 1 in 9.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Rollins compared with other names?
- In Lebanon, Rollins is the 805th most common surname of 45,185 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Rollins” — the 805th most common surname in Lebanon. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.