Yolanda
Yolanda is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 68 births. Its best rank was 89th, in 1972.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 680.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19693,771 births
- Best rank
- #89in 1972
- Since 1901
- 112,863people given the name
The story in the numbers
112,863 girls have been named Yolanda in the United States since 1901, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1969, with 3,771 births — 0.22% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 68 births in 2024, against 3,771 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1967, and the 1960s alone account for 25%. It has spent 98 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 4 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Yolanda | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 174 | |
| 1910s | 1,979 | |
| 1920s | 4,432 | |
| 1930s | 2,923 | |
| 1940s | 8,319 | |
| 1950s | 19,947 | |
| 1960s | 28,437 | |
| 1970s | 27,032 | |
| 1980s | 11,389 | |
| 1990s | 4,629 | |
| 2000s | 2,184 | |
| 2010s | 1,117 | |
| 2020s | 301 |
In 1969, its biggest year
Yolanda was the 98th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1969 were Lisa, Michelle, Jennifer, Kimberly and Melissa. See all of 1969.
Names that rose and fell with Yolanda
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Cheriepeak 1970
- Gingerpeak 1971
- Janeenpeak 1970
- Wendiepeak 1970
- Janenepeak 1970
- Lanettapeak 1967
- Coreenpeak 1968
- Marcypeak 1971
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.