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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : from the Germanic personal name Baldo, a short form of the various compound names with the first element bald ‘bold’.
  • French : nickname for a lively person, from Old French baud ‘joyful’, ‘abandoned’ (a word of Germanic origin--see above--but with an altered sense).

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