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[Opinions] Rollan
What do you think of the name Rollan (pn RAHL-in)? It was my great grandfather's name and lately, it's been growing on me. Do you think it would be confused with Roland? Or misspelled/mispronounced on a regular basis? I'm leaning towards Rollan Charles as a combo. I'd love to hear any opinions on the name.Check out my ever changing name list! http://www.behindthename.com/pnl/137889Mom to Amalia and Jon
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My gut instict was to pronounce it like "rolling". Yes, it would get confused with Roland.I knew a guy in high school named Rawlin, which I guess is the pronunciation you're looking for.Either way, I'm not a fan.Rollan Charles is a nice combo for the name.
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So...Rolling?
What about Roland or Nolan or something else instead?Roland Charles. Charles Roland
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No, not Rolling. RAHL-in. The Roll sounds more like the sound of doll. I know Roland and Nolan are incredibly similar, but I just don't care for them much and can't see myself using them.
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Pardon my dense-ness, but what does the Roll part rhyme with? (I'm so bad at those phonetic pronunciations.) When I saw Roland, "Rol" sounds like roll and troll. That would have been my inclination with Rollan as well - to basically say "rollin'" like "rolling" without the g. So if that's not what you are going for, I'd say that yes, it would be mispronounced often. Is the "Roll" supposed to rhyme with tall and crawl?
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Yes, the Roll part would sound similar to doll, tall or crawl
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Then I'd either be prepared to correct people (not a terrible thing, just depends on your personality) or maybe spell is Rawlin.
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I don't mind correcting people, people say my daughter's name wrong all the time (either call her Amelia or stress the wrong syllable and say it like ah-ma-LEE-ah). But the overall feedback I've gotten on the name just hasn't been great. Ah well, maybe it'll just have to be a middle name.
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It looks like it could be said like "rolling." I read it that way at first. And yeah, I think people might connect it with Rolland / Roland, even if they don't exactly confuse it. But if I were you these things would not really bother me enough to stop me from using it. I like the name. Correcting name pronunciation now and again really isn't terribly humiliating, as long as there's enough connection between the pronunciation and the spelling that it makes sense.
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