Boy name origins & meanings
- German : Mighty raven
Family name origins & meanings
- English : from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements walh ‘foreigner’ + hrafn ‘raven’.
- English : habitational name from a place in Sussex named Waldron, from Old English w(e)ald ‘forest’ + ærn ‘house’, ‘dwelling’. The surname is now also common in Ireland, especially in Connacht.
- English : This is the name of a prominent NH family, established there since the 17th century. Richard Walderne (b. c. 1615) came to New England from Alchester, Warwickshire, England, about 1640 and settled at Dover, NH.