Roll

Where Roll comes from

The dictionaries list Roll as a given name — a diminutive of the male given name Roland — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

Along the way
  1. 1881
    Debut at its peak, #866
    #866 among boys with 5 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  2. 1882
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the male given name Roland.
Namesakes

No widely known Roll turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.