Aroldo
Aroldo is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on and adapted from their earlier 1850 collaboration, Stiffelio. The opera premiered in Rimini's Teatro Nuovo Comunale on 16 August 1857.
Meaning & Origin of Aroldo
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Aroldo is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on and adapted from their earlier 1850 collaboration, Stiffelio. The opera premiered in Rimini's Teatro Nuovo Comunale on 16 August 1857.
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The Story of Aroldo
Aroldo first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby boy name in 1967, with 6 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1991: 12 births, good for #4,475 nationwide. About 30% of every Aroldo on record arrived during the 1990s, its defining decade. Aroldo last appeared in the published SSA data in 2023, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 125 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1960s to the 2020s.
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About the name Aroldo
Aroldo is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1967 and has accumulated 125 births in the dataset. Aroldo's peak popularity came in 1991 when it ranked #4,475. Use the chart and map above to compare Aroldo's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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