Arnold (given name)

Arnold is a masculine German, Dutch and English given name. It is composed of the Germanic elements ''arn'' "eagle" and ''wald'' "power, brightness". The name was first recorded in Francia from about the 7th century, at first often conflated with the name ''Arnulf'', as in the name of bishop Arnulf of Metz, also recorded as ''Arnoald''. ''Arnulf'' appears to be the older name (with cognates in Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse), and German (Frankish) ''Arnold'' may have originally arisen in c. the 7th century as a corruption of ''Arnulf'', possibly by conflation of similar names such as ''Hari-wald'', ''Arn-hald'', etc.

The name is attested with some frequency in Medieval Germany during the 8th to 11th centuries, as ''Arnold, Arnalt, Arnald, Arnolt''. It was occasionally spelled ''Harnold, Harnald'', and the name may have been conflated with an independent formation containing ''hari-'' "host, army". Its etymology ceased to be evident from an early time, and it was sometimes folk-etymologized as ''Ehrenhold'' in the early modern period. The French form ''Arnaud'' is recorded from the 10th century, and may have reinforced and been reinforced by cognates in England after the Norman conquest, such as the Anglo-Saxon form ''Earnweald'' (Domesday Book ''Ernehale''; ''Ernaldus'' 12th century). However, the Norman spelling did not survive into the modern period (other than a possible survival in surnames such as ''Arnall, Arnell'', although these names could be of multiple origins, most likely the Old English), and once standardised spelling swept England, the form ''Arnold'' gradually became the norm. In most of the English speaking world, the name regained popularity in the 18th and 19th centuries. In the United States, ''Arnold'' had a relative surge of popularity at the beginning of the 20th century, peaking as the 89th most commonly given masculine name in 1916, but it dropped again below rank 200 by the 1950s.

Hypocorisms of the name are: Arent (Arend, Ahrend), Arndt, Arne, Aarne, Aart (etc.). Regional variants of the name include: French: Arnaud, Arnault, Italian: Arnoldo, Dutch: Arnout, Arnoud, Croatian: Arnoldo, Portuguese: Arnoldo, Spanish: Arnaldo, Catalan: Arnau, Arnald. The German name was also adopted in Old West Norse (14th century), as Arnaldr (Icelandic: Arnaldur).

Arnold is also recorded as a surname (via a patronymic) from the early modern period. (Cornelius Arnold, b. 1711). Provided by Wikipedia
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