Yolanda is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
Yolanda is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,865 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,864 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 107,853 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Yolanda. That is 0.03 % of all living Americans.
#88 - this is the highest position Yolanda has ever reached. Most names never manage to reach such high popularity in even one of the 143 years of records.The last time Yolanda reached this top position was in the last century, in 1972, when 3,415 newborn girls were named Yolanda. But as our statistics show, Yolanda has not always been a popular name: in some years of records, lastly in the year 1900, it was either not given to newborns at all or less than 5 times (a name is only included in the official statistics if it is given at least 5 times in a year). Even today it's not at the peak of its popularity, nevertheless Yolanda is still the first choice of some parents every year as the most beautiful first name for their newborn daughter.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Yolanda was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 54 newborns were given the name Yolanda, making them rank #2,698. Although the name Yolanda was more popular in the last century than it is today, it is still common and for some parents it is the name of choice for their daughter. So the chances of an encounter with a young Yolanda are still there in our contemporary times.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter Y is pretty rare as an initial letter for girls' names: only 1.8% of all common girls' names in the US begin with Y. By the way, the most common first letters of girls' names are A, S and M, while Q, X and U are the least common initials of girls' names.
With seven letters, the name Yolanda has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Since 1.8% of all girls’ names begin with a Y, this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average, but Y is by no means the rarest initial. And of course, there are single names with Y that are very popular, currently the most common girls’ name that starts with Y is Yvonne.
If your name is Yolanda and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Yolanda, you can simply say:
Yoyo
Orange
Lion
Apple
Nut
Dinosaur
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Yolanda
Yolanda
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
Y
O
L
A
N
D
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
Y
O
L
A
N
D
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Yolanda sounds like this:
