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 is 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, and German 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 was also brought to England after the Norman conquest, where it replaced the cognate Anglo-Saxon form Earnweald. However, the Anglo-Norman given name did not survive into the modern period, and the German form Arnold was re-introduced in the English-speaking world in the 19th century.
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, Arndt, Arne, Aart.
Regional variants of the name include: French: Arnaud, Arnault,
Italian: Arnoldo, Dutch: Arnout, Arnoud, Portuguese: Arnoldo, Spanish: Arnaldo, Catalan: Arnau, Arnald.
The German name was also adopted in Old West Norse, as Arnaldr .
Arnold is also recorded as a surname from the early modern period..
List of people called Arnold
- Arnoald, Frankish Bishop of Metz
- Arnold I
- Arnold I, Count of Looz
- Arnold I, Count of Cleves
- Arnold I, Bishop of Coria
- Arnold I, Lord of Egmond
- Arnold I, Count of Astarac
- Arnold II, Count of Looz
- Arnold of Arnoldsweiler, German saint
- Arnold of Bergen, Norwegian Roman Catholic bishop
- Arnold of Brescia, Italian Augustinian monk
- Arnold of Egmond, Duke of Guelders
- Arnold of Lübeck, German Benedictine priest and chronicler
- Arnold of Metz, Frankish bishop of Metz
- John Arnold of Monmouthshire, Welsh Protestant politician
- Saint Arnulf or Arnold of Soissons, patron saint of brewers
- Arnold of Torroja, Spanish knight, Grand Master of the Knights Templar
- Arnold von Uissigheim, German highwayman, bandit, and renegade knight
- Arnold Akberg, Estonian painter
- Arnold Alas, Estonian landscape architect
- Arnaud Amalric, French Cistercian abbot
- Arnaud Amanieu, Lord of Albret
- Arnold Anderson
- Arnold Anderson, New Zealand sprinter and hurdler
- Arnold Anderson, Native American chemical engineer
- Arnold Arbeit, American artist and architect
- Arnold Auerbach
- Arnold M. Auerbach, American comedy writer
- Arnold "Red" Auerbach. American basketball coach
- H. Arnold Barton, American historian
- Arnold Bax, English composer, poet, and author
- Arnold Orville Beckman, American chemist, inventor, investor, and philanthropist
- Arnold Belgardt, Soviet Russian cyclist
- Arnold Bennett, English writer
- Arnold Böcklin, Swiss painter
- Arnold Boonen, Dutch portrait painter
- Arnold Børud, Norwegian singer
- Arnold Bürkli, Swiss engineer
- Arnold Büscher, German SS concentration camp commandant executed for war crimes
- Arnold Chernushevich, Soviet Belarusian fencer
- Arnold Clark, Scottish businessman
- Arnold Clavio, Filipino journalist, newscaster, and television host
- Arnold Denker, American chess player
- Arnold Franz Brasz, American painter, sculptor, and printmaker
- Arnold Bronckorst, Dutch painter
- Arnold Brown
- Arnold Brown, Australian army officer
- Arnold Brown, 11th General of The Salvation Army
- Arnold Brown, Canadian politician
- Stewart Arnold Brown, Canadian ice hockey player
- Arnold Brown, Scottish entertainer
- Arnold von Bruck, Franco-Flemish composer
- Arnold W. Brunner, American architect
- Arnold Förster, German entomologist
- Arnold Fothergill, English cricketer
- Arnold Freeman, British writer, philosopher and anthroposophist
- Arnold Frick, Liechtenstein judoka
- Arnold van Gennep, Dutch-French ethnographer and folklorist
- Arnold Green
- Arnold Green, Estonian Soviet politician
- Arnold Green, New Zealand rugby league player
- Arnold H. Green, American historian
- Arnold Greenberg
- Arnold Greenberg, American businessman
- Arnold Greenberg, American businessman
- Arnold Henry Guyot, Swiss-American geologist and geographer
- Arnold Hattingh, South African born music supervisor
- Arnold Hauser, Hungarian art historian
- Arnold Heertje, Dutch economist
- Arnold Wienholt Hodson, British colonial administrator
- Arnold Horween, American football player and coach
- Arnold Issoko, Congolese footballer
- Arnold Jackson
- Arnold Jackson, British athlete, army officer and barrister
- Arnold Jackson, English cricketer
- Arnold Jackson, American football player
- Arnold Janssen, German-Dutch Roman Catholicpriest and missionary, a saint
- Arnold Jürgensen, Nazi Germany military officer
- Arnold Kanter, American politician
- Arnold Keyserling, German philosopher and theologian
- Arnold Kirke-Smith, English footballer
- Arnold Klebs, Swiss-American microbiologist
- Arnold Kohlschütter, German astronomer and astrophysicist
- Arnold Koller, Swiss politician
- Arnold Kopelson, American film producer
- Arnold Kramer, American folk artist
- Arnold Krammer, American historian
- Arnold Lakhovsky, Ukrainian-Russian painter and sculptor
- Arnold Lang, Swiss naturalist
- Arnold Barry Latman, American baseball player
- Arnold Lazarus, South African psychologist
- Arnold Lechler, German-Russian footballer
- Arnold Leese, British fascist politician and veterinarian
- Arnold J. Levine, American molecular biologists
- Arnold Luhaäär, Estonian weightlifter
- Arnold Lunn, English skier, mountaineer and writer
- Arnold Manoff, American screenwriter
- Arnold Maran, Scottish surgeon and writer
- Arnold Mendelssohn, German composer
- Arnold Meri, Soviet Estonian military officer
- Arnold Mickens, American football player
- Arnold Mitt, Estonian basketball player
- Arnold Möller, German calligrapher
- Arnold Mühren, Dutch football player and manager
- Arnold Murray
- Arnold Musto, British civil engineer
- Arnold Newman, American photographer
- Arnold Nordmeyer, New Zealand politician
- Arnold Nötzli, Swiss cyclist
- Arnold Origi, Kenyan footballer
- Arnold Oss, American ice hockey player
- Arnold Östman, Swedish conductor
- Arnold Palacios, Northern Mariana Islands politician
- Arnold Penther, Austrian naturalist
- Arnold Pihlak, Estonian footballer
- Arnold Plant, British economist
- Arnold Palmer, American golfer
- Arnold Paole, Serbian outlaw, supposed vampire
- Arnold Payne
- Arnold Payne, English cricketer
- Arnold Payne, Zimbabwean sprinter
- Arnold Pinnock, British-Canadian author
- Arnold Pomerans, German-born British translator
- Arnold Lewis Raphel, American diplomat
- Arnold E. Reif, American cancer researcher
- Arnold S. Relman, American physician
- Arnold Ridley, English playwright and actor
- Arnold Rönnebeck, German-born American artist
- Arnold Rosé, Romanian-Austrian violinist
- Arnold Rothstein, American mob boss
- Arnold Rüütel, Estonian politician, President of Estonia
- Arnold Savage, English politician, Speaker of the House of Commons
- Arnold Savage II, English politician
- Arnold Scaasi, Canadian fashion designer
- Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian-American composer
- Arnold Schönhage, German mathematician and computer scientist
- Arnold Schottländer, German chess player
- Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-born American bodybuilder, actor and politician, Governor of California
- Arnold S. Shapiro, American mathematician
- Arnold Shapiro, American television producer and writer
- Arnold von Siemens, German telecommunications industrialist
- Arnold Šimonek, Slovak footballer
- Arnold Sjöstrand, Swedish actor and film director
- Arnold Smith
- Arnold Smith, Canadian diplomat
- Arnold Snyder, American gambler and gambling author
- Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist
- Arnold Sorina, Vanuatuan runner
- Arnold Spohr, Canadian ballet dancer, choreographer, and artistic director
- Arnold Stang, American actor and comedian
- Arnold Susi, Estonian lawyer and politician
- Arnold Townend, British politician
- Arnold Townsend, English cricketer
- Arnold Toynbee, British economic historian
- Arnold J. Toynbee, British historian and philosopher
- Arnolds Ūdris, Latvian cyclist
- Arnold Vaide, Swedish runner and football coach
- Arnold Viiding, Estonian shot putter and discus thrower
- Arnold Volpe, Lithuanian-born American composer and conductor
- Arnold Vosloo, South African-born American actor
- Arnold Walfisz, Polish mathematician
- Arnold Williams
- Arnold Williams, Welsh-born New Zealand cricketer
- Arnold Williams, British businessman and politician
- Arnold Williams, American politician, Governor of Idaho
- Arnold Muir Wilson, British solicitor and politician
- Arnold Wilson, British politician and army officer
- Arnold Weiss, German-born American intelligence officer and lawyer
- Arnold Wesker, British dramatist
- Arnold Wolfendale, British astronomer
Fictional characters
- Arnold McKinley, a character and firefighter genius in the children's TV series, Fireman Sam
- Arnold Shortman, the main character in Hey Arnold! media
- Arnold, a character in
- Arnold, the pet dog of Turtle, a character in the TV series Entourage
- Arnold, the dog featured on a jingle used throughout his early career by UK DJ Tony Blackburn
- Arnold John Flass, a character in the Batman universe
- Arnold Jackson, a character in the TV series Diff'rent Strokes
- Arnold Perlstein, a character in The Magic School Bus
- Arnold Rimmer, a character in the TV series Red Dwarf
- Dr. Arnold Rosen, a neighbor who is friendly with Don and Megan Draper in Mad Men
- Arnold Toht, a character in Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Arnold Vinick, a character in the TV drama series The West Wing
- Dr. Arnold Wayne, Betty Draper's psychiatrist in Mad Men
- Arnold Weber, a character from the HBO series "Westworld "
- Arnold Wesker, a villain known as Ventriloquist in the DC Comics Universe
- Arnold von Winkelried, a fictional hero in Swiss folklore
- Arnold Ziffel, a character in the TV sitcom series Green Acres
- Arnold Teague, a character in the science fiction film Solar Crisis
- Arnold, a gay character in the series Please Like Me