Iolanda

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So unique!

Iolanda Costa, stylized as Iolanda, represented Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 with the song "Grito", landing a 10th place finish.

Also Russian variant form:
Famous bearer Yolanda Chen (Иоланда Чен) a Russian athlete.

Iolanda is also used in the country of Georgia, albeit rarely. Its variant ლონდა (Londa) is much more common there.

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In Georgian, Iolanda is written as: იოლანდა.

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Sources used:
- http://kids.ge/baby-name?id=2129 (in Georgian)
- Iolanda Kakabadze Navarro (b. 1948), an Ecuadorian conservationist of Georgian descent: https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%98%E1%83%9D%E1%83%9A%E1%83%90%E1%83%9C%E1%83%93%E1%83%90_%E1%83%99%E1%83%90%E1%83%99%E1%83%90%E1%83%91%E1%83%90%E1%83%AB%E1%83%94 (in Georgian)
- (general): https://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/?first=Iolanda&last=&search=Zoeken
• https://ge.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Iolanda/+/ge-0-Georgi%C3%AB (lists only bearers living in Georgia)
- You can also find a few bearers on Facebook. Here are some examples of bearers that I found on there (for privacy reasons, I will refrain from directly linking to their profiles):

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• Iolanda Chach.ua
• Iolanda Cucqiri.dze
• Iolanda Iorbal.idi
• იოლანდა ირემა.ძე (Iolanda Irema.dze)
• Iolanda Jino.ria
• Iolanda Machara.shvili
• Iolanda Odisha.ria

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NOTE: all of these people have a public profile, i.e. apparently they do not mind being searchable and googleable.

Also Provençal: https://ieo-oc.org/spip.php?page=article&id_article=300 --- Source: Institut d'Estudis Occitans

Also Galician: http://www.ige.eu/igebdt/esq.jsp?idioma=gl&ruta=onomast/nomes.jsp
https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lista_de_nomes_femininos_en_galego#I

Also Catalan: http://www.idescat.cat/noms/?q=Iolanda&lang=en. [noted -ed]

Wife's name is Iolanda. She pronounces it ee-oh-lan-da. Goes by Io (eye-oh) for short. Being involved in computer science, she says to people, I-O, Input, Output for short. People "get" it then. Too many times they screw it up by spelling it Yolanda or some other funny way.

The Italian pronunciation is simply "yo-lan-da" (the 'o' sound being perhaps midway between the vowel in 'book' and the vowel in 'on', depending on accents). It is also spelt Jolanda in Italy (but doesn't it look prettier with an I!).

It is also the Portuguese form of Yolanda. [noted -ed] The Portuguese pronunciation is ee-oh-LAHN-dah. I believe the Romanian pronunciation is yo-LAHN-dah. And I don't know what the Italian pronunciation is.