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Harold
Pronounced /ˈhæɹəld/
Rank in 2024
#990
Born in 2024
227
Peak year
1924 · #13
Origin
Old English
Also recorded for girls:0 in 2024
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 227 boys were named Harold, about 1 in every 7,556.
- It peaked in 1924 with 14,149 babies, ranked #13.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 551,398 boys have been named Harold since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Harold per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 12.0Greatest1901–27
- 8.2Silent1928–45
- 3.1Boomers1946–64
- 1.3Gen X1965–80
- 0.4Millennials1981–96
- 0.2Gen Z1997–12
- 0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 200,510 babies, 11.99 per 1,000. Silent: 168,752 babies, 8.17 per 1,000. Boomers: 116,744 babies, 3.11 per 1,000. Gen X: 34,196 babies, 1.26 per 1,000. Millennials: 12,259 babies, 0.40 per 1,000. Gen Z: 5,547 babies, 0.18 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 3,126 babies, 0.14 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From a merger of Old English Hereweald and Old English Harold (itself from Old Norse Haraldr), both from Proto-Germanic *Harjawaldaz, from *harjaz (“army”) + *waldaz (“ruler, authority”). Related to Walter, which has the elements reversed. Cognate with Danish, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish Harald, Faroese and Icelandic Haraldur. ==== Proper noun ==== Harold (plural Harolds) A male given name from Old English or Old Norse. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== See also ==== Hereward Harvard
- A male given name from Old English or Old Norse.
- Origin
- Old English
- Say it
- /ˈhæɹəld/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Harold, CC BY-SA 4.0.