First name content excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to 30,000 Baby Names © 2005 by Marcia Layton Turner. Buy this book online or call 1-800-253-6476.
Last name content copyright © 2006 Patrick Hanks.
Last name origin & meaning:
Italian: from a short form of a personal name of Germanic origin formed with bald ‘bold’ as the second element, for example Ubaldo, Teobaldo, Garibaldo, Rambaldo.