Yolanda
Only 82 Polish women carry it, and not one newborn has been given it in the last 25 years. It comes from Latin for "violet flower", and lands in Poland as the foreign cousin of Jolanta.
Yolanda Pronunciation
Yolanda is pronounced ih-o-LAHN-dah (/ɨɔˈlanda/).
What Yolanda means
Where Yolanda comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yolanda grows from Latin viola, the violet flower. Medieval forms like Violante carried that bloom across Europe, and in Spain the name settled and flourished. Yolanda of Aragon, a queen born in the fourteenth century, is one documented bearer who fixed the name to Spanish and Aragonese history.
In Polish the name arrives as Jolanta, with Jola and Jolka the diminutives friends and family reach for. A teacher reading a class register might call out Jolanta in full, then hear Jola in reply. The short form does the daily work.
The meaning stays close to the ground: fiołek, a violet. That is a small flower, low and early. To be named for it is to be named for something that appears before most of spring. The Latin root holds under every variant, from Jolanta down to Jolka.
How many people are named Yolanda
1 in 274925 women in Poland is named Yolanda. 82 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3927 among female names.
Yolanda as a middle name
Yolanda is a first name for 82 women in Poland and a middle name for another 39, a 68/32 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1121st, between Violet (39) and Betül (38).
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#1119 Thu39
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#1120 Violet39
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#1121 Yolanda39
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#1122 Betül38
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#1123 Elfrieda38