Entry № 11807 · Old Germanic origin

Yolande Yolande — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ YOH-lahnd /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Old Germanic
Meaning
"Violet (Yolande of Aragon)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Germanic)

A name that means "violet (yolande of aragon)".

Yolande is from the Old Germanic vio (violet). Yolande of Aragon (1384-1442) was the queen of Sicily, the mother-in-law of King Charles VII of France — credited with funding and supporting Joan of Arc's mission.

Violet. The queen who funded Joan of Arc.

The name in its native script.

Yolande
Transliteration
Yolande
Pronunciation
/ ˈjoʊ.lənd /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Yolande stands.

Yolande 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.

Yolandes before her.

Real people
Yolande of Aragon
Queen of Four Kingdoms, Joan of Arc's patron.
1384 – 1442
In fiction
Yolande
Featured in Shaw's Saint Joan.
1923

Names connected to Yolande.

The number behind Yolande.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Yolande reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.