Forename Roald

Worldwide, Roald (Roald , Роальд , Роалд ) is quite a rare male first name. The first name Roald is characteristic of Norway, where it is quite a rare boy's name, Albania, and Netherlands, where it is a rare boy's name. Not in comparison with a country's population, the name is most common in Russia, the United States, and Norway. Much less frequently, Roald is the last name as well as the forename.

Translations, transliterations and names similar to the name Roald

name Valdr, name Руаль, name Роалд, name רואלד, name Роальд, Руаль, name Роальд, name رولد, name Roald

VARIANT	COUNTRY
Roald	Norway, Philippines, Netherlands, Germany, United States
Роальд	Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan
Роалд	Armenia, Russia
רואלד	Israel

First names said to be same

Valdr, Роальд, Руаль, Руаль, and رولد

First name Roald in the context

Roald is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Roald Amundsen , the operatic character in the opera South Pole and Roald Malcolm Renfield / Gun-Gypsy , the musical character in the musical Dracula the Musical.

Notable namesakes

	roald amundsen Norwegian explorer; first person to reach the South Pole, NO (b. 1872)
	roald a. hogenson American judge (1913-1987), US (b. 1913)
	roald dahl British writer and poet (1916–1990), GB (b. 1916)
	roald wisted-thu Norwegian athletics competitor (b. 1927)
	roald aas Speed skater and road and track cyclist, NO (b. 1928)
	roald tvedt Norwegian painter (1935-2016), NO (b. 1935)
	roald hoffmann Nobel laureate organic and inorganic chemist and Holocaust child survivor, US (b. 1937)
	roald larsen Norwegian speed skater, NO (b. 1898)
	roald dysthe Norwegian businessman (b. 1903)
	roald steinseide Norwegian politician (b. 1956)
	roald linaker Norwegian politician (b. 1959)
	roald tangen Norwegian physicist, NO (b. 1912)
	roald bruun-hanssen Norwegian association football player (b. 1962)
	roald aasheim Norwegian painter and interior architect (1912–1994), NO (b. 1912)
	roald bradstock British javelin thrower, GB (b. 1962)