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Roald
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Usage
Old Swedish
Old Danish
Norwegian
Danish
Swedish
Finnish
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Origin and Meaning
Old Swedish, Old Danish and younger form of Hróaldr [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
Related Names
See Hróðvaldr
Grammar
| - Danish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Roald |
| Genitive: | Roalds |
| - Finnish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Roald |
| Genitive: | Roaldin |
| Partitive: | Roaldia |
| - Norwegian |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Roald |
| Genitive: | Roalds |
| - Swedish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Roald |
| Genitive: | Roalds |
Name Day
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|
27 August |
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
- Norway: Sør-Trøndelag and parts of Rogaland after the Protestant Reformation; Nord-Noreg (esp. Nordland) ca. 1920-1940; Agder and Sør-Vestlandet in the 1970s [5]
- Denmark: Bornholm, Falster [6]
Namesakes
- Roald, Faroese løgmaður (around the year 1450)
- Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (16 July 1872 – circa 18 June 1928), Norwegian explorer of the polar regions
- Roald Dahl (13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990), Norwegian-British writer
Statistics
Name Count per Country (What's this?)
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| Country | Commonness
Commonness | Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
  | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | |
| Denmark[8] |
  |
221 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
221 | n.a. |
| Sweden[9] |
|
52 | 176 | 0 | 0 | 52 | 176 |
| Finland[10] |
 |
n.a. |
72 | 0 | 0 | n.a. |
72 |
 Iceland[11] |
  |
1 | 3 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Norway[12] |
 |
2806 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
2806 | n.a. |
 Greenland[13] |
  |
0 | 0 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| #: count of main first name only | |||||||
| &: count of both main and additional first names | |||||||
| Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country. |
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Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend
References
- ↑ Rikard Hornby: Danske navne - Træk af navngivningens historie (1951)
- ↑ Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2007)
- ↑ Kristian Hald: Personnavne i Danmark - Oldtiden (1971)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Digi- ja Väestötietovirasto, Digital and Population Data Services Agency, https://nimipalvelu.dvv.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/