Message: "DAROLD" - Behind the Name

[Facts] DAROLD

by Andy ;—) (guest)

3/15/2006, 10:15 PM

I read about a guy called DAROLD. The context was German. Any ideas? (I suppose the second part is "walt / weald" like in Harold.)

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- Cleveland Kent Evans (clevelandkentevans) +3

3/16/2006, 11:37 AM

In what way was the context "German"? I've always thought myself that Darold was simply an American creation that deliberately or accidentally blends together the sounds of Darryl and Harold. There's nothing close to it in my German name dictionary, Knaurs Vornamen Buch.

- Andy ;—) (guest) +2

3/16/2006, 1:33 PM

It was on tele, the cast of a movie or something of the kind, and the surname was definitely German.

- Cleveland Kent Evans (clevelandkentevans) +1

3/16/2006, 3:07 PM

Was this an American movie? There are more Americans of German descent than any other European nationality (if one separates out the Scots and Welsh from the English :)), so you can make no assumptions about an American's given name being "German" just because his surname is.

Remember that the American President with the most "Germanic" surname, Dwight Eisenhower, had a given name that was definitely not German.

This message was edited 3/16/2006, 3:08 PM

- Andy ;—) (guest)

3/16/2006, 9:55 PM

No, it was a German Movie.

I am well aware of the fact, that a German surname is far from being an indication to a German background. But this was all German. So I still wonder whether there is a Germanic root DAR. Of course your explanation as a blend of DARRYL and HAROLD sounds somewhat convincing. I don't know any famous American Darolds though that might have served as an example for some German mother to name her boy Darold. Do you? But of course that Darold needn't have to be famous …

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