Gender Masculine
Usage English, French, German, Swedish, Dutch, Hungarian, Polish, Slovak, Albanian, Georgian, Carolingian Cycle
Scripts როლანდ(Georgian)
Pronounced Pron. /ˈɹoʊ.lənd/(English) /ʁɔ.lɑ̃/(French) /ˈʁoː.lant/(German) /ˈroː.lɑnt/(Dutch) /ˈro.lɒnd/(Hungarian) /ˈrɔ.lant/(Polish) [key·simplify]
Meaning & History
From the Old German elements hruod meaning "fame" and lant meaning "land", though some theories hold that the second element was originally nand meaning "brave" [1].Roland was an 8th-century military commander, serving under Charlemagne, who was killed by the Basques at the Battle of Roncevaux. His name was recorded in Latin as Hruodlandus. His tale was greatly embellished in the 11th-century French epic La Chanson de Roland, in which he is a nephew of Charlemagne killed after being ambushed by the Saracens. The Normans introduced the name to England.
Related Names
VariantsRolland, Rowland(English) Rolland(French) Roeland(Dutch) Loránd, Lóránt(Hungarian) Orlando, Rolant, Rollant(Carolingian Cycle)
Feminine FormRolande(French)
Other Languages & CulturesHrodland(Germanic) Orlando, Rolando(Italian) Rolandas(Lithuanian) Rolant, Rollant(Medieval French) Hrōþilandaz(Old Germanic) Orlando, Rolando, Roldão(Portuguese) Rolan(Russian) Orlando, Rolando, Roldán(Spanish)
Surname DescendantRolland(French)
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Roland at Roncesvalles by Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville (1883)Categories
A Song of Ice and Fire characters, baseball players, Beetleborgs characters, Black Clover characters, black history, bluegrass musicians, child actors, courage, Dharma and Greg characters, Discworld characters, Disney characters, earth, Elder Scrolls characters, fame, Fire Emblem characters, Formula One drivers, Frasier characters, Fringe characters, guitarists, heroes, ice hockey, Interpol songwriting, isograms, knights of the Burgundian Golden Fleece, landforms, lawyers, love island Sweden, medieval, Megami Tensei characters, never out of the US top 1000, Ni no Kuni characters, Nintendo characters, nobility, Once Upon a Time characters, playwrights, politics, Shokugeki no Soma characters, Sofia the First characters, Stephen King characters, Suikoden characters, Swimming Hall of Famers, The Legend of Zelda characters, The Matrix characters, The West Wing characters, Three's Company characters, True Detective characters, uncertain etymology, Violet Evergarden characters, virtues, Westworld characters
Sources & References
- Drosdowski, Günther. Duden Lexikon der Vornamen. Mannheim, 1968, page 178.
