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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish and northern Irish : from the personal name Baldy or Baldie, a pet form of Archibald.
  • English : possibly from an Old English female personal name, Bealdḡ{dh}, meaning ‘bold combat’, first recorded c.1170 as Baldith, and in others from the Old Norse personal name Baldi.

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