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Yolonda

Yolonda is a girl's name that peaked in 1972, when it was the 742nd most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 2006. About 3,500 Yolondas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 54.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Yolonda

By the numbers

Total US births
3,874
Estimated living today
3,500
Median age today
54
Peak year
1972
Best rank
742nd
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1923

How old the living Yolondas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 3,874 babies given the name since 1923, about 3,500 are alive — 89 in every hundred. Roughly 0 of them are children and 530 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1971 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 Yolonda is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Yolonda is most concentrated in Louisiana (4.7×), Mississippi (3.5×), the District of Columbia (2.2×), Florida (2.0×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1972

The most popular girls’ names the year Yolonda peaked:

All the names of 1972

Related names

Yolonda against another name

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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.