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Last name origins & meanings:

  1. Dutch and German: from the Germanic personal name Baldo, or a short form of the various compound names such as Baldwin, formed with the first element bald ‘bold’, ‘strong’.
  2. Scottish: nickname for a bald man, from Middle English balled ‘rounded like a ball’, from bal(le) ‘ball’ (Old English ball or Old Norse b{o,}llr).