Last name: WALDER

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WALDER : This last name is indexed 43,345 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

WALDER : 1: English (Sussex): from Middle English walder welder wolder ‘dweller in the wooded region or upland’. Compare Waldman 3. This type of formation where the suffix -er is added to a topographic term is mainly found in southern England especially in Sussex Surrey and Kent.2: English (Sussex): from the Middle English personal name Walder (Old English Wealdhere from weald ‘power rule’ + here ‘army’) the English counterpart of the Norman French name which gives rise to the much more frequent Walter.3: German: habitational name for someone from any of several places called Wald or a topographic name for someone who lived in a forest or wood Middle High German walt.

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