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Submitted Name (1)
Type Surname (from given name)
Other Forms FormsRolfe, Rou, Rollo, Hrolfr, Hrólfr
Added 5/28/2014 by Isaac Wheatley
Meaning & History
English: Composed of the Germanic elements
hrod ‘renown’ +
wulf ‘wolf’. This name was especially popular among Nordic peoples in the contracted form
HRÓLFR and seems to have reached England by two separate channels; partly through its use among pre-Conquest Scandinavian settlers, partly through its popularity among the Normans, who, however, generally used the form
ROU (see
ROLLO).
North German: from a personal name, a contracted form of
RUDOLF.
Submitted Name (2)
Type Surname (from given name)
Other Forms FormsRolfe, Ruff
Added 6/22/2016 by anonymous
Meaning & History
From the Middle English personal name
Rolf, composed of the Germanic elements
hrōd "renown" and
wulf "wolf". This name was especially popular among Nordic peoples in the contracted form
Hrólfr, and seems to have reached England by two separate channels; partly through its use among pre-Conquest Scandinavian settlers, partly through its popularity among the Normans, who, however, generally used the form
Rou(l) (see
ROLLO).
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