Rolla
Recorded 1880–1964 · United States
Rolla was most popular in 1916, when 45 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,917 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 1,371 people named Rolla.
Rolla over time
How old is the name Rolla?
The Social Security Administration’s records begin in 1880, and Rolla is already there in that first year — so the name is older than the record and these figures cannot date it. It has been recorded in 81 of the 146 years since. It was last recorded in 1964.
How many people are named Rolla?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 1,371 American births named Rolla between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 199 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Rolla in 2025?
Rolla was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Rolla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Rolla is a boy’s name — 4.7% of the 1,371 Americans given it were girls and 95.3% were boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Rolla?
Roughly 199 Americans named Rolla are alive today — 15% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 78 years old, and half are between 71 and 84.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Rolla is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org