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First name origins & meanings:

  1. Teutonic: Mighty
  2. Teutonic: Rule

First name variations: Wald, Waldan, Waldi, Waldin, Waldo, Waldon, Waldy, Welti, Waldemarr, Waldemar, Waldorf, Walfred, Waldo

Last name origin & meaning:

English: habitational name from any of the places, in Essex, Hertfordshire, and North Yorkshire, named Walden, from Old English w(e)alh ‘foreigner’, ‘Briton’, ‘serf’ (see Wallace) + denu ‘valley’.