Rolla
Rolla is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 371st, in 1891.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191645 births
- Best rank
- #371in 1891
- Since 1880
- 1,371people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,306 boys have been named Rolla in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1916, with 45 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 45 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1922, and the 1920s alone account for 22%. It has spent 27 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 65 girls have also been given it, 4.7% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 1916, its biggest year
Rolla was the 962nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1916 were John, William, James, Robert and Joseph. See all of 1916.
Names that rose and fell with Rolla
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Greenpeak 1927
- Lempeak 1917
- Gustpeak 1923
- Perleypeak 1915
- Colonelpeak 1920
- Benjimanpeak 1921
- Bertpeak 1918
- Charleypeak 1920
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.