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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Old Norse : Kind one
  • Latin : Olive tree
  • French : Peace

Boy name variations

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from a short form of any of various medieval personal names derived from Germanic personal names ending in -n + wald ‘rule’, for example Arnold and Reinwald.
  • South German : nickname for a rotund or naive person, from Middle High German nol ‘hillock’, ‘knoll’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : of uncertain origin; perhaps an occupational name from Yiddish nol ‘awl’.

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