Aroldo

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Aroldo is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name719 records spelled Aroldo2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, Italy, United Kingdom

  Also written Arôldo

• French given name217 records spelled Aroldo3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Spain, United States

  Languages: French, Catalan

  Also written Aroldô

• Ukrainian given name95 records spelled Aroldo6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Peru, United States, Ukraine, Russia

  Languages: Ukrainian, Russian, Belarusian

  Also written Арольдо, Аролдо

43 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Aroldo is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Italian, Harold

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

CL SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) — 85 years between 1921–2018. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Aroldo de Azevedob. 1910BRBrazilian geographer (1910-1974)
• Aroldo Tierib. 1917ITItalian actor (1917-2006)
• Aroldo Tolomellib. 1921ITItalian partisan and politician
• Aroldo Fedattob. 1924BRBrazilian association football player (1924–2013)
• Aroldo Ruschionib. 1932ITItalian Paralympic swimmer
• Aroldo Rodriguesb. 1933BRBrazilian teacher
• Aroldo Cedrazb. 1951BRveterinarian, judge and Brazilian politician
• Aroldo Betancourtb. 1955VEVenezuelan actor
• Aroldo Lázaro Sáenzb. 1962ESSpanish military and UN official
• Aroldo Macedomusician and author

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 314 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Aroldo?

We estimate roughly 18 thousand people bear Aroldo (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.

In which country does Aroldo have the most bearers?

We estimate about 17 thousand people bear Aroldo in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled aroldo.

How common is Aroldo compared with other names?

In Guatemala, Aroldo is the 106th most common given name of 22,776 given names recorded there.

Is Aroldo a male or female name?

Aroldo is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Aroldo mean?

Recorded meaning: Comandante dell’esercito