Given name & surname
Jolanda
Jolanda is used as a given name and a surname. Jolanda is connected with Yolande.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Jolanda is a form of Yolande. A possible origin is Germanic, although the derivation remains uncertain.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In Italian use, Jolanda is used as a form of Yolande.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1918. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Jolanda through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,015
- 0 boys · 1,015 girls
- Most popular year
- 1965
- 55 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2008. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 55 in 1965. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,383 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Jolanda’s family of names
Jolanda has an affectionate form in Jola. Jolanda shares a linguistic root with Jolanta. In Italian usage, Jolanda has a conventional equivalent in the English form Yolanda.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Jolanda has relatives in 4 languages.
4 related names in 4 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 9
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- YolandaEnglish
- Jolancognate
- YolaineFrench
- Yolandecognate · French
- Jolindaequivalent
- Jolanaequivalent
- Jolantacognate
- Jolandeequivalent
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People named Jolanda
- Yolanda of FlandersRegent of Latin Empire of Constantinople (1175-1219)
- Yolande of Dreux, Queen of ScotlandQueen consort of Scotland, duchess consort of Britain1259–1322
- Jolanda ČeplakSlovene athletics competitor (born 1976)
- Yolanda of CourtenayQueen Consort of Hungary1197–1233
- Jolanda NeffSwiss cyclistborn 1993
- Yolande of Aragon, Duchess of CalabriaDuchess of Calabria1273–1302
- Jolanda de RoverDutch swimmerborn 1963
- Yolanda ChenRussian long and triple jumperborn 1961
- Jolanda KeizerDutch heptathleteborn 1985
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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