Roland

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Male Name

Usage

Old Swedish
Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Finnish

Origin and Meaning

German younger form of Hrōdland ^{[1] [2] [3] [3] [4]}

Related Names

See Hrōdland

Name Days

Finland (Swedish Language)

4 September

Sweden

9 August

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1397 ^[5]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[6]		0	0	11841	47950
Denmark[7]		0	n.a.	475	n.a
Norway[8]		0	0	122	213
Finland[9]		n.a.	3	n.a	1313
#: 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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Roland.

Sources: ^{[6] [7] [8] [9]}

References

1. ↑ Rosa und Volker Kohlheim: Duden Lexikon der Vornamen (1998)
2. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
3. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
4. ↑ Kustaa Vilkuna: Etunimet (1990)
5. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
6. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
7. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
8. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
9. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi