Yolanda is the Spanish-Italian form of Violet — from the Greek ion (violet) — via the medieval Hungarian Iolanda. **A top-100 US baby name from 1979 to 1989**. **Yolanda Adams (born 1961)** — **American gospel singer; four Grammy Awards, 16 NAACP Image Awards, the best-selling female gospel artist of all time with over 7 million records sold**. **Hosted the syndicated *Yolanda Adams Morning Show* from 2007 to 2016**. **Yolanda King (1955-2007)** — eldest daughter of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King; American actress and civil rights activist. **Saint Yolanda of Vianden (1231-1283)** — daughter of the Count of Vianden who founded a Dominican convent at Marienthal, Luxembourg. **Yolanda Saldívar (born 1960)** — convicted murderer of Selena Quintanilla (1995).
Subject of countless gospel music histories.
Yolanda reduces to five — the number of violet.