Rollo is a distinctive choice, ranked #1859 in 2024. Your child is likely to be the only Rollo in their class.
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UK Rank 2024
#1859
About the Name Rollo
Rollo is climbing rapidly up the charts, having climbed 217 places in just five years. Its best recorded rank was #1391 in 2021 — and current momentum suggests it could challenge that mark again. The name has been a regular feature in UK records since 1998.
Rollo is distinctive enough that your child will likely be the only one in both their class and their school — standing out on every register.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about the name Rollo
Unlikely. With around 13 UK babies named Rollo per year, your child will almost certainly be the only Rollo in his class, and possibly the only one in the whole school.
Rollo is currently rising in popularity in the UK, up 217 places over the last five years to #1859 in 2024. If this trend continues, it will become more common in classrooms over the next decade.
Rollo is a distinctive choice sitting outside the mainstream UK top names. Parents choosing less common names often find their children appreciate the individuality as they grow up, rarely needing to add an initial to distinguish themselves.
Notable people named Rollo include: Rollo Davidson Prize — The Rollo Davidson Prize is a prize awarded annually to early-career probabilists by the Rollo Davidson trustees.; Rollo Dilworth — Rollo A.; Rollo Russell — Francis Albert Rollo Russell was an English meteorologist and scientific writer..
Rollo does not appear in the US top 1,000 baby names, making it a distinctively British choice — your child is unlikely to encounter American Rollos in the wild.
13
UK babies named Rollo (2024)
< 1
Expected classmates with this name (class of 28)
~0.0
In a school of 600
↑ 217 places
Rank change (last 5 years)
🏫 Who else is in the room?
In a typical UK class of 28, highlighted children share the name Rollo
Likely around 1 other Rollo in the class
UK Popularity (1998–2024)
Rank and birth count · ONS official data
No US data available for this name
✨ Similar names to Rollo
Names with a similar style — each with their own classroom story
The Rollo Davidson Prize is a prize awarded annually to early-career probabilists by the Rollo Davidson trustees. It is named after English mathematician Rollo Davidson.
Rollo Howard Beck was an American ornithologist, bird collector for museums, and explorer. Beck's petrel and three taxa of reptiles are named after him, including a subspecies of Galápagos tortoise, Chelonoidis nigra becki from Volcán Wolf.
Francis Albert Rollo Russell was an English meteorologist and scientific writer. Russell was also an alternative cancer treatment advocate who promoted the idea that cancer is caused by excessive consumption of meat, alcohol, coffee and tea.
Rollo Davidson was a probabilist, alpinist, and Fellow-elect of Churchill College, Cambridge, who died aged 25 on Piz Bernina. He is known for his work on semigroups, stochastic geometry, and stochastic analysis, and for the Rollo Davidson Prize, given in his name to early-career probabilists.