Last name origins & meanings:
- 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’.
- 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).
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