Roger

A male given name: from Germanic words meaning “fame” and “spear.”.

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Roger is a masculine given name and a surname. The given name is derived from the Old French personal names Roger and Rogier. These names are of Germanic origin, derived from the elements hrōd ("fame", "renown") and gār, gēr ("spear", "lance"). The name was introduced into England by the Normans. In Normandy, the Frankish name had been reinforced by the Old Norse cognate Hróðgeirr. The name introduced into England replaced the Old English cognate Hroðgar. Roger became a very common given name during the Middle Ages. A variant form of the given name Roger is Rodger. The surname Roger is sometimes an Anglicised form of the Gaelic surname Mac Ruaidhrí.

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Masc. proper name, from Old French Rogier, from Old High German Hrotger, literally "famous with the spear," from hruod- "fame, glory" + ger "spear" (see gar (n.)). As a generic name for "a person," attested from 1630s. Slang meaning "penis" was popular c. 1650-c. 1870; hence the slang verb sense of "to copulate with (a woman)," attested from 1711. The use of the word in radio communication to mean "yes, I understand" is attested from 1941, from the U.S. military phonetic alphabet word for the letter -R-, in this case an abbreviation for "received." Said to have been used by the R.A.F. since 1938. The Jolly Roger pirate flag is first attested 1723, of unknown origin; jolly here has its otherwise obsolete sense "high-hearted, gallant." Roger de Coverley, once a favorite English country dance, is so called from 1685, in reference to Addison's character in the "Spectator." French roger-bontemps "jovial, carefree man," is attested there from 15c.

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Famous spear. Combine of hrod (fame) and ger (spear).

Rutger, Rodger

Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	Roger Federer	1981	Swiss tennis player
2	Roger Moore	1927	British actor
3	Roger Waters	1943	English singer, songwriter, bassist, and composer
4	Roger Ebert	1942	American film critic, author, journalist, and TV presenter
5	Roger Ailes	1940	Television executive
6	Roger Stone	1952	American lobbyist
7	Roger Goodell	1959	Commissioner of the National Football League
8	Roger Daltrey	1944	English singer, musician, songwriter and actor
9	Roger Staubach	1942	American football Hall of Fame quarterback, businessman
10	Roger Clemens	1962	Baseball pitcher
11	Roger Rees	1944	Welsh-American actor
12	Roger Allam	1953	English actor, born 1953
13	Roger Mayweather	1961	American boxer
14	Roger Lloyd-Pack	1944	English actor
15	Roger Corman	1926	American film director and film producer
16	Roger Bart	1962	American actor
17	Roger Penrose	1931	English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
18	Roger Miller	1936	Singer-songwriter, musician, actor
19	Roger Maris	1934	American baseball player
20	Roger Vadim	1928	Film director, screenwriter, producer
21	Roger Bannister	1929	English middle distance athlete
22	Roger Bacon	1220	Medieval philosopher and theologian
23	Roger Craig Smith	1975	American actor
24	Roger Cross	1966	Jamaican-Canadian actor
25	Roger Casement	1864	Irish diplomat, activist, nationalist and poet
26	Roger McGuinn	1942	American singer-songwriter and guitarist
27	Roger Troutman	1951	American hip-hop artist
28	Roger B. Taney	1777	United States federal judge
29	Roger Gracie	1981	Brazilian martial artist
30	Roger Deakins	1949	British cinematographer
31	Roger Wang	1948	American businessman
32	Roger Whittaker	1936	Anglo-Kenyan musician
33	Roger Wheeler	1926	American businessman
34	Roger Hodgson	1950	UK musician and songwriter
35	Roger Sherman	1721	Early American lawyer and politician, as well as a Founding Father of the United States
36	Roger Scruton	1944	English philosopher
37	Roger Glover	1945	Welsh bassist, keyboardist, songwriter and record producer
38	Roger Guenveur Smith	1955	American actor
39	Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March	1287	English nobleman and rebel
40	Roger Milla	1952	Cameroonian footballer
41	Roger Binny	1955	Cricketer
42	Roger Penske	1937	Racecar driver
43	Roger Rogerson	1941	Australian drug trafficker and former detective
44	Roger E. Mosley	1938	American actor
45	Roger Zelazny	1937	American speculative fiction writer
46	Roger Bruce Chaffee	1935	United States Navy commander, NASA astronaut
47	Roger Sterling
48	Roger Huerta	1983	American martial artist
49	Roger Ashton-Griffiths	1957	English actor, screenwriter and film director
50	Roger Davis	1939	American actor and businessman
51	Roger Clinton, Jr.	1956	American actor and musician, half brother of former President Bill Clinton
52	Roger Dean	1944	English artist, designer, architect, and publisher
53	Roger L. Jackson	1956	American actor
54	Roger Avary	1965	Canadian producer, screenwriter and director
55	Roger Howarth	1968	American actor
56	Roger Murtaugh	1937	Lethal Weapon character
57	Roger Schmidt	1967	German footballer born 1967
58	Roger Bowen	1932	American actor
59	Roger C. Carmel	1932	American actor
60	Roger Mudd	1928	American television news reporter and anchor
61	Roger II of Sicily	1095	King of Sicily
62	Roger Peterson	1937	American aviator
63	Roger Mooking		Canadian singer
64	Roger Perry	1933	American actor
65	Roger Lukaku	1967	Democratic Republic of the Congo footballer
66	Roger McGough	1937	British writer and poet
67	Roger Martínez	1994	Colombian footballer
68	Roger Hunt	1938	English footballer
69	Roger Y. Tsien	1952	American biochemist
70	Roger Sloman	1946	British actor
71	Roger Delgado	1918	Character actor
72	Roger Ewing	1942	American photographer and actor
73	Roger Wicker	1951	American politician
74	Roger Hill	1948	American actor
75	Roger Fry	1866	English artist and art critic
76	Roger Faulques	1924
77	Roger Ballen	1950	American photographer
78	Roger Rasheed	1969	Australian tennis player
79	Roger Michell	1956	South African theatre, television and film director
80	Roger Angell	1920	American editor and sports writer
81	Roger Kwok	1964	Hong Kong actor
82	Roger Sperry	1913	American neuroscientist
83	Roger Spottiswoode	1945	Film director
84	Roger Bushell	1910	RAF officer
85	Roger Hargreaves	1935	English author and illustrator of children's books, notably the Mr. Men and Little Miss series, intended for very young readers
86	Roger Black	1966	British sprinter
87	Roger Donaldson	1945	New Zealand filmmaker
88	Roger Livesey	1906	British actor
89	Ranking Roger	1961	Musician
90	Roger I of Sicily	1031	Norman Count of Sicily
91	Roger Williamson	1948	Racecar driver
92	Roger Mahony	1936	American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church
93	Roger Sanchez	1967	American musician
94	Roger O'Donnell	1955	British musician
95	Roger Tuivasa-Sheck	1993	New Zealand rugby league player
96	Roger Berruezo Vivancos	1985	Spanish actor
97	Roger Chapman	1944	British singer
98	Roger Boisjoly	1938	American aerospace engineers
99	Roger Zabel	1951	French journalist
100	Roger Allers	1949	Film director, screenwriter, storyboard artist, animator and playwright
101	Roger Kibbe	1941	American serial killer
102	Roger Cicero	1970	German pop and jazz singer
103	Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March	1374	Heir presumptive to Richard II of England between 1385 and 1398, born in Wales
104	Roger Christian	1944	Film director
105	Roger Cohen	1955	British (later American) journalist and writer
106	Roger Gobeth	1973	Brazilian actor
107	Roger Rocha	2000	American musician
108	Ruđer Josip Bošković	1711	Croat-Italian physicist
109	Roger Wilson	1958	American actor
110	Roger Hollis	1905	Director General of MI5
111	Roger Brown	1942	American basketball player
112	Roger Fisher	1922	American academic
113	Roger Byrne	1929	English footballer
114	Roger McDowell	1960	American baseball player and coach
115	Roger Espinoza	1986	Honduran footballer
116	Roger Marshall	1960	American politician
117	Roger Altman	1946	American investment banker, private equity investor, and former United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury
118	Roger Fenton	1819	British photographer
119	Roger Williams	1924	American pianist
120	Roger Miret	1964	American musician
121	Roger Smith	1925	CEO
122	Roger Cornillac		French actor and theatre director
123	Roger Ver	1979
124	Frère Roger	1915	Swiss monk
125	Roger D. Kornberg	1947	American chemist
126	Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.	1951	American politician and lawyer
127	Roger M. Bobb	1966	American television producer and director
128	Roger Tonge	1946	British actor
129	Roger Clinton, Sr.	1908	First stepfather of 42nd U.S. President Bill Clinton
130	Roger McNamee	1956	American musician
131	Roger Gual	1974	Spanish film director
132	Roger Garaudy	1913	French philosopher
133	Roger Birnbaum	1950	American film producer
134	Roger Cook	1940	English singer, songwriter and record producer
135	Roger Johnson		British television presenter
136	Roger Alan Wade	2000	American singer-songwriter
137	Roger Ward	1937	Australian actor
138	Roger MacBride	1929	American writer, TV producer, and politician; 1976 Libertarian Party candidate for President
139	Roger Keith Coleman	1958	American murderer
140	Roger Sherman Baldwin	1793	American politician
141	Roger Vivier	1903	French shoe designer
142	Roger Ascham	1515	English scholar and didactic writer
143	Roger Earl	1946	British drummer
144	Roger Kumble	1966	Film director, screenwriter
145	Roger Cañas	1990	Footballer
146	Roger Etchegaray	1922	French cardinal
147	Roger Revelle	1909	American scientist
148	Roger Jenkins	1955	Banker
149	Roger Nash Baldwin	1884	American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) co-founder
150	Roger Babson	1875	Entrepreneur and business theorist
151	Roger Shah	1972	German-Pakistani electronic music composer and producer
152	Roger Mason, Jr.	1980	American basketball player
153	Roger Craig	1930	American baseball player and coach
154	Roger Bennett	1970	British journalist
155	Roger Couderc	1918	French journalist
156	Roger Knobelspiess	1947	Former French robber turned actor and writer
157	Roger Kitter	1950	British actor
158	Roger Lewis	1993
159	Roger Aaron Brown	1949	American actor
160	Roger Hawkins	1945	American drummer
161	Roger Taylor	1941	British tennis player
162	Roger Neilson	1934	Canadian ice hockey coach
163	Roger Cotes	1682	English mathematician
164	Roger Carr	1946	British businessman
165	Roger Auque	1956	French journalist and diplomat
166	Roger Creager	1971	American musician
167	Roger Mobley	1949	Former child actor
168	Roger Helmer	1944	British politician
169	Roger
170	Roger Lemerre	1941	French footballer
171	Roger Greenaway	1938	English songwriter and record producer
172	Roger Andermatt	1969	Swiss serial killer
173	Roger Lodge	1960	American game show host
174	Roger Quilter	1877	British composer (b. 1877)
175	Roger Manganelli	1973	American musician
176	Roger Kimball	1953	American publisher
177	Roger Lancelyn Green	1918	British writer
178	Roger Touhy	1898	American mob boss
179	Roger Donlon	1934	United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
180	Roger Caillois	1913	French author and philosopher
181	Roger De Haan	1948	British businessman
182	Roger L. Simon	1943	American novelist and screenwriter
183	Roger De Vlaeminck	1947	Road bicycle racer
184	Roger Grimsby	1928	American actor and journalist
185	Roger Taillibert	1926	French architect
186	Roger Myerson	1951	American economist
187	Roger Eno	1959	British musician
188	Roger Mortimer, 1st Baron Mortimer	1231	English Baron
189	Roger Piantoni	1931	French footballer
190	Roger Leir	1934	American podiatrist and ufologist
191	Roger Lewentz	1963	German politician
192	Roger Mortimer, 2nd Earl of March	1328	English nobleman and military commander during the Hundred Years' War
193	Roger de Oliveira Bernardo	1985	Brazilian footballer
194	Roger Coma	1976	Spanish actor
195	Roger de Montgomerie, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury	1005	Norman nobleman
196	Roger Morneau	1925	Canadian writer
197	Roger Bontems	1936
198	Roger Linn	2000	American musical instrument maker
199	Roger Rose	1960	Voice actor
200	Roger Lanzac	1920	French radio host and television presenter