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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Old French : Herald

Boy name variations

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : possibly derived from the Germanic root bald ‘bold’.
  • A Huguenot family of this name, from the Saintonge region of France, settled in Staten Island, NY, at the end of the 17th century.

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