Entry № 11806 · Spanish origin

Yolanda Yolanda — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ yoh-LAHN-dah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Spanish
Meaning
"Violet (Yolanda Adams; Yolanda King)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Spanish)

A name that means "violet (yolanda adams; yolanda king)".

Yolanda is the Spanish-Italian form of Violet — from the Greek ion (violet) — via the medieval Hungarian Iolanda.

Subject of countless gospel music histories.

Violet. Yolanda Adams is the best-selling female gospel artist of all time; eldest daughter of MLK Jr.

The name in its native script.

Yolanda
Transliteration
Yolanda
Pronunciation
/ joʊˈlɑːn.də /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Yolanda stands.

Yolanda does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Yolandas before her.

Real people
Yolanda Adams
American gospel singer.
born 1961
Yolanda King
Eldest daughter of MLK Jr.
1955 – 2007
Saint Yolanda of Vianden
Luxembourg Dominican nun.
1231 – 1283
In fiction
Yolanda
Pulp Fiction.
1994

Names connected to Yolanda.

The number behind Yolanda.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Yolanda reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.