What is the name meaning of ROWLAND. Phrases containing ROWLAND
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Medieval English form of Norman French Roland, ROWLAND means "famous land."
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English : from a medieval personal name composed of the Germanic elements hrÅd ‘renown’ + wald ‘rule’, which was introduced into England by Scandinavian settlers in the form Róaldr, and again later by the Normans in the form Ro(h)ald. This name has absorbed a much rarer one with the second element hard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’, which was introduced into England by the Normans in the form Ro(h)ard. It has also sometimes been used as a pet form of Rowe 2, itself both a variant of Rolf and a short form of Rowland.
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English : habitational name from any of the various places, for example in Derbyshire, County Durham, Gloucestershire, Staffordshire, Wiltshire, and West Yorkshire, so named from Old English stÄn ‘stone’ + lÄ“ah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’.Americanized form of any of various like-sounding names in other European languages, for example Polish Stanislawski and Greek Anastasiou.The explorer and journalist Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841–1904) was born John Rowlands in Denbigh, Wales, but traveled as a cabin boy in 1858 from Liverpool, England, to New Orleans, LA, where he was adopted by a merchant surnamed Stanley. From the late 1860s he worked as a correspondent for the New York Herald, and traveled extensively in Africa.
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Pet form of English Rowland, ROWLEY means "famous land."Â
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As You Like It' Son of Sir Rowland de Boys. 'As You Like It' Sir Oliver Martext, a vicar.
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English : topographic name for someone who lived by a hedgerow or in a row of houses built next to one another, from Middle English row (northern Middle English raw, from Old English rÄw).English : from the medieval personal name Row, a variant of Rou(l) (see Rollo, Rolf) or a short form of Rowland.English : English name adopted by bearers of French Baillargeon.
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English : patronymic from Rowland 1.
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English : patronymic from a reduced form of Rowland.
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English : from Rol(l)ant, a Norman personal name composed of the Germanic elements hrÅd ‘renown’ + land ‘land’, ‘territory’ (or + -nand ‘bold’, assimilated to -lant ‘land’). This was popular throughout Europe in the Middle Ages as a result of the fame of Charlemagne’s warrior of this name, who was killed at Roncesvalles in ad 778.English : habitational name from places in Derbyshire and Sussex, so named from Old Norse rá ‘roebuck’ + lundr ‘wood’, ‘grove’.Variant of German and French Roland.
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