Roald

boys:

189 births since 1912

#4397 (4th percentile)

overall:

189 births since 1912

#7550 (2nd percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Roald".

1912 1960 19121960

Key Statistics

Total Births
189
Peak Births
18
Peak Year
1928
First Recorded
1912
Peak Percentile
2.4%
Current Percentile
0.5%
Peak Rank
#386
Current Rank
#654
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Roald

Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Roald. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 43.9% confident that Roald is pronounced as rohld. The next most likely pronunciation is ROH-ahld, at 29.3% confidence.

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43.9%
2
29.3%
2
22.0%
rohld (1 syllable)
Verified
43.9% confidence
R OW1 L D
ROH-ahld (2 syllables)
29.3% confidence
R OW1 AA0 L D
ROH-uhld (2 syllables)
22.0% confidence
R OW1 AH0 L D
roh-AHLD (2 syllables)
4.9% confidence
R OW0 AA1 L D

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Roald. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Roald, please vote using the thumbs up button.

rawd (1 syllable)
1 name 55 births
R AO1 D

Names with this pronunciation:

rohnld (1 syllable)
2 names 32 births
R OW1 N L D

Names with this pronunciation:

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like R OW1 L D) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.