Roland

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Male Name

Usage

Old Norse
Old Swedish
Old Danish
Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

German younger form of Hrōdland

Related Names

See Hrōdland

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Roland
Genitive:	Rolands

- Finnish
Nominative:	Roland
Genitive:	Rolandin
Partitive:	Rolandia

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Roland
Genitive:	Rolands

- Swedish
Nominative:	Roland
Genitive:	Rolands

Name Days

Finland (Swedish Language)

4 September

Sweden

9 August

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Denmark: 14th century
• Sweden: 1397
  
• Norway: 15th century

Strongest Period of Usage

• Sweden: 1930-1949
• Norway: 1940-1955
• Denmark: 1950-1969

Predominant Regional Usage

• Norway:
  • Nord-Trøndelag (esp. Snåsa and Lierne) after the Protestant Reformation
  • Oppland (Valdres, esp. Slidre, Vang)
  • Sogn og Fjordane
  • Nordland
• Denmark:
  • Bornholm
  • Sjælland
  • Jylland

Namesakes

• Karl Axel Roland Otterbjörk (6 February 1925 - 25 December 1984), Swedish onomast

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&
Sweden		10031	41193	0	2	10031	41191
Finland		n.a.	1788	0	0	n.a.	1788
Denmark		468	n.a.	0	n.a.	468	n.a.
Iceland		15	18	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Greenland		0	7	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		241	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	241	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.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Roland.