Jolanda
Jolanda or Jolande is a feminine given name. It is a Dutch, Italian, German and Swiss German cognate of Yolanda.
- Dutch
- Slovene
- Croatian
- Italian
Meaning & Origin of Jolanda
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Jolanda or Jolande is a feminine given name. It is a Dutch, Italian, German and Swiss German cognate of Yolanda.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Dutch
- Slovene
- Croatian
- Italian
The Story of Jolanda
Jolanda first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1918, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1965: 55 births, good for #1,500 nationwide. About 34% of every Jolanda on record arrived during the 1960s, its defining decade. Jolanda last appeared in the published SSA data in 2008, with 6 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 1K Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1910s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Jolanda
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Names that sound like Jolanda
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About the name Jolanda
Jolanda is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1918 and has accumulated 1K births in the dataset. Jolanda's peak popularity came in 1965 when it ranked #1,500. Use the chart and map above to compare Jolanda's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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