Rölli

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Rölli is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Rollstuhl (“wheelchair”) + -i.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 783K(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 7K
  • ITItaly≈1 in 63K

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)

≈2,900 people, est.

Sources
156 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 7.0K (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Rolli in US United States, CH Switzerland, DE Germany and 2 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)

Rollstuhl (“wheelchair”) + -i

Sources 1

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Rölli 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.

Where Rölli is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈2,900 est.≈1 in 484K—Rolli2
CH Switzerland#6641,1921 in 7K1.2KRolli40
IT Italy—≈1,000 est.≈1 in 63KlistedRolli13
US United States—4251 in 783K430Rolli156
DE Germany—≈410 est.≈1 in 197K—Rolli51
FR France—≈140 est.≈1 in 493K8—2

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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Rölli is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Argentina, United States, Switzerland

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Rolli

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Rolli

  • Hungarian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Switzerland, Hungary

    Also written Rolli

  • Italian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Switzerland, India

    Also written Rolli

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Switzerland, Italy, United States

    Also written Rolli

  • Czech surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Switzerland

    Also written Rolli

  • Persian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Also written Rolli

  • Burmese surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Myanmar (Burma)

    Also written Rolli, Rollï

3 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Rölli 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 Finnish, bentgrass, bent (grass of the genus Agrostis)

    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)

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 2 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Rölli
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20241.2K#970

Reference works 1

  • 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 Rölli mean, and where does it come from?
Rollstuhl (“wheelchair”) + -i Recorded by Wiktionary.
In which country does Rölli have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 2.9 thousand people named Rölli in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rolli.
Where is Rölli most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Rölli is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 7.0 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Rölli?
In Switzerland, the national register counted 1,192 people named Rölli in 2024, about 1 in 7.0 thousand residents.
How common is Rölli compared with other names?
In Switzerland, Rölli is the 664th most common surname of 127,759 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, “Rölli” — the 664th most common surname in Switzerland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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