Yolanda
About 113,455 American babies have been named Yolanda since 1901, most of them around 1969. In 2025 it ranked 3,211th. About 92,000 Yolandas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 56.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Yolanda boys named Yolanda
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 113,455
- Estimated living today
- 92,000
- Median age today
- 56
- Peak year
- 1969
- Best rank
- 98th
- Rank in 2025
- 3,211th
- First recorded
- 1901
- Girls / boys
- 112,918 / 537
How old the living Yolandas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 113,455 babies given the name since 1901, about 92,000 are alive — 81 in every hundred. Roughly 1,800 of them are children and 24,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1969 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Spanish
From Spanish Yolanda, the form of a medieval royal name of obscure, probably Germanic, origin. It has been identified with Latin Violante and with Ancient Greek ἴον + ἄνθος (“flower”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Yolandas
- Yolanda of Flanders (1175–1219)Regent of Latin Empire of Constantinople
- Yolanda de Aragon (1384–1442)Infanta de Aragon, titular queen consort of Naples, French noble
- Yolanda Díaz (born 1971)Spanish politician and lawyer
- Yolanda Adams (born 1961)American gospel singer
- Yolanda Hadid (born 1964)American television personality and former model
- Yolanda King (1955–2007)American activist
- Yolanda of Poland (1235–1298)Princess of Hungary and Duchess of Poland, later abbess
- Yolanda de Courtenay (1197–1233)Queen Consort of Hungary
People named Yolanda with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Yolanda is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Yolanda is most concentrated in New Mexico (3.3×), Texas (2.6×), the District of Columbia (1.9×), Arizona (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1969
The most popular girls’ names the year Yolanda peaked:
Yolanda elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Yolanda | 810 | 473rd |
| England and Wales girls | Yolanda | 282 | 993rd |
| Ireland girls | Yolanda | 15 | 455th |
| Belgium girls | Yolanda | 10 | 1,101st |
| Scotland girls | Yolanda | 7 | 448th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Yolanda: rank by region
In 1998, Yolanda was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Yolanda | 713 | 5 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Yolanda among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Yolanda | 3,415 | 5,118 |
| Finland girls | Yolanda | 41 | 115 |
| the Netherlands boys | Yolanda | — | 42 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Yolanda lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 91,325 women called Yolanda were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Granada | Yolanda | 2,200 | 4.575 | 44 |
| Ávila | Yolanda | 365 | 4.564 | 42 |
| Bizkaia | Yolanda | 2,748 | 4.563 | 34 |
| Cádiz | Yolanda | 2,841 | 4.433 | 46 |
| Málaga | Yolanda | 3,991 | 4.355 | 41 |
| Toledo | Yolanda | 1,631 | 4.344 | 43 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Yolanda against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.