Roland

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Is it back in fashion?

Just heard a friend of a friend has called their DS this.

as in Rat?

No I don't think it's back in fashion.

Roland would be ... brave?

No idea if it's back in fashion but I do think it's due a revival.

She obviously never watched Grange Hill!!

Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came Yum.

But Roland

Not a family name either.

Grange Hill, the rat & synthesisers, that's what Roland says to me!

you must pronounce it Ro land like the girl did on grange hill, any other way is wrong!

I quite like it

I like it. A noble name.

Good name.

Makes me think of Roland from Grange Hill.

And Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner.

I adore this name - The Song of Roland . DH vetoed it on grounds of the duffer from Grange Hill.

I like it.
My DS1 has a friend called Roland - he is v cool.

Remember on my first day of a new job looking for a very senior member of
staff. Asked by title and last name and everyone was like "who?!" until eventually someone twigged and said "Oh!!! Roley!!!" was a very nice moment. And he was lovely.

Remember on my first day of a new job looking for a very senior member of
staff. Asked by title and last name and everyone was like "who?!" until eventually someone twigged and said "Oh!!! Roley!!!" was a very nice moment. And he was lovely.

My dad's first name is Rowland (though it's not the name he's called by), and I've always rather liked it...I'd use Rollo as a nn, but memories of Ro-land from Grange Hill means it's probably doomed forever!

Sorry but my first thought was 'rat'?

Then I giggled for a while.

However I do like Rollo as a nn.

Rollo is fine - in fact, I'd use it as a proper name anyway and certainly in preference to Ro-land.

Are there people in their thirties who have not heard of Roland Rat or watched Grange Hill?

I have a fancy for Roland as I love Roly and Rollo as NN but I don't think it will happen.
I don't really know Roland Rat myself have heard of it only and by the time he is older I don't it will have any relevance at all.

Are there people in their thirties who have not heard of Roland Rat or watched Grange Hill?

Why would it matter? What is more to the point is whether the child's contemporaries will have heard of them, and I would say the answer is No.

Worrying about this kind of association is always pointless though. By the time a child is old enough to go to school, who knows what new characters may have sprung up in TV shows and the like.

I am in my twenties, and have barely heard of Roland Rat and didn't watch Grange hill due to it being boring, really don't think it is going to matter!

I agree with you Percy :)

Never heard of Roland Rat or Roland from Grange Hill (foreigner). I associate it with the Childe Roland and middle ages stuff. Lovely name.

I have an uncle called Rowland.
"Roland" is the French spelling, "Rowland" is the English version.

I'm not hugely keen on it, but I teach a Raymond, and that's grown on me.