as a Last Name
- 5,511
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Harold
Meaning & Origins
English: from the Old English personal name Hereweald, its Old Norse equivalent Haraldr, or the Continental form Herold introduced to Britain by the Normans. These all go back to a Germanic personal name composed of the elements heri, hari ‘army’ + wald ‘rule’, which is attested in Europe from an early date; the Roman historian Tacitus records a certain Cariovalda, chief of the Germanic tribe of the Batavi, as early as the 1st century AD.
| 5,439th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 5,511
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- West Virginia
- has the most people named Harold per capita
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