Yolande is a first name for girls.
Recently, the name Yolande has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one girl in 100,000 has been named Yolande. That means that a girl named Yolande is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Yolande.
If your name is Yolande your parents may be very proud to let their daughter swim against the tide: The name Yolande never ranked higher than position 1,180 in our statistics, and for many years not a single parent had the creative idea of naming their daughter Yolande. But something caused mothers and fathers in 1929 to choose the name more often than usual - only compared to the rest of the time, of course. You probably still won't find many children named Yolande because that was several decades ago - unless, of course, you have some very creative parents in the neighborhood.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Yolande was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As in the last century, Yolande still proves to be very exceptional. In 2022, for example, it was not given once in the entire U.S. - or, to be more precise, it was given at most four times, because names given less than five times in one year are not included in the official statistics. So if you know someone named Yolande who was born in 2022, please let us know - we would be very interested in hearing about it so that we can provide you with even more accurate statistics.
It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named Yolande in the USA. Although the name is not sooooo rare overall, it is only at home in a few selected regions of the USA. In the entire United States there are currently a total of 264 women and girls named Yolande, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 264 women and girls named Yolande live in no more than 7 different states, including for example Alabama, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. In all other 42 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Yolande. (To explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five women with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Yolande lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Yolande and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics.). The state with the most girls and women named Yolande relative to its female population is Maine. And even there, only one in 21,207 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Yolande.
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 Yolande 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 Yolande 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 Yolande, you can simply say:
Yoyo
Orange
Lion
Apple
Nut
Dinosaur
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Yolande
Yolande
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
Y
O
L
A
N
D
E
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
E
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. Yolande sounds like this:
