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I've heard from a (not too trustworthy) baby names site that this name is an Irish form of Roland. I don't think that's true considering the very English spelling, but does anybody have any information on this name?
Pintel: You know you can't read.
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Sterling, Alexander, Riordan, Lily Rose, Caroline, Juliet
Pintel: You know you can't read.
Ragetti: It's The Bible, You get credit for trying!
Jack: Why is the rum always gone? [wobbles over to hat] Oh, that's why.
The statement below is true.
The statement above is false.
Sterling, Alexander, Riordan, Lily Rose, Caroline, Juliet
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Revelin seems to be one of several Anglicized spellings of the ancient Irish name Roibhilin. I can't find that in my reference books, but I did find a website that quoted the ancient Annals of Ulster saying that in Omeath the name was "equated" with Roland. What that probably means is that men who were called Roibhilin or Revelin in Irish had that "translated" into Roland by their English overlords, in the same way that Conchobhar was "translated" into Cornelius or Gobnait became Abigail, but there was no etymological connection between the names. The most reliable sources seem to state that the original meaning of Roibhilin is unknown.
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