Rollo
About Rollo
Rollo is a livelier, roly-poly, o-ending version of Roland.
Although it sounds modern, Rollo actually was seen regularly on Latin documents in the Middle Ages, though not heard in everyday speech. Historically, it's associated with a powerful Viking leader--who had a wife named Poppa.
Rollo May was a well known existential psychologist. There have been Rollos on screen played by Buster Keaton ("The Navigator"), Rainn Wilson ("Juno") and John Cleese ("Fierce Creatures").
Rollo has also been used over the years as a pet form of Roland, Rudolph and Ralph.
Pronounced RAH-lo.
As of October 2026, Rollo ranked #8780 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #769 in 1881, Nameberry popularity #882.
Editor: Sophie Kihm
Sources: US popularity data is from the Social Security Administration. Meanings and origins are from Nameberry's name references.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | — | 0 | 0 |
World rankings
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Rollo on lists
Famous Rollos
- Rollo the Viking
Duke of Normandy
- Rollo Percival Loring Weeks
British actor
- Rollo Reese May
American psychologist and author
- Rollo Howard Beck
American ornithologist
- Rollo Davidson
English mathematician
- Rowland Constantine O'Malley "Rollo" Armstrong
English music producer of Rollo and Sister Bliss and Faithless
Rollo in pop culture
- Rollo Podmarsh
character from P. G. Wodehouse's "The Awakening of Podmarsh"
- The Rollo Books by Jacob Abbott (1803
79), series of 28 moral tales of a boy whose experiences on a New England Farm and elsewhere were used to extol the obvious virtues
- Rollo
character in "The Cleveland Show"
- Rollo
the name of Lelouch's 'brother' in the second season of the anime "Code Geass"
- Rollo Sigurdsson
Character on the tv show "Vikings"
- Rollo Tomasi
the alias of the villain in the film "L.A. Confidential"