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Rolfe vs Rolland

American parents have registered 9,873 Rollands since 1880, against 543 Rolfes. Rolland is still ahead, with 16 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Rolfe against Rolland, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Rolfe Rolland

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Rolland has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1955, when Rolfe had 20 and Rolland had 85.

Side by side

  Rolfe Rolland
Total US births 5439,873
Most in one year 20264
Babies in 2025 under 516
Estimated living today 2203,100
Median age today 7165
Peak year 19551928
Best rank 1,725th boys352nd boys
Rank in 2025 unranked5,608th
First recorded 19121880
Girls / boys 0 / 5435 / 9,868

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Rolfes alive today are over 71; half the Rollands are over 65. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Rolfe and Rolland.