Erland is a boy's name of Scandinavian origin meaning “eagle’s land.” It is a rare choice in US records.
Erland at a glance
Gender
Boy name
Origin
Scandinavian
Meaning
“eagle’s land”
Pronunciation
/ˈɛər.lənd/
About the name Erland
Erland belongs to the Scandinavian tradition. Its meaning — “eagle’s land” — is the sense carried by its Scandinavian roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Erland first appears in Social Security records in 1901. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #984 in 1901, and in 2024 0 babies received the name — 478 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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