Frequency: (1781)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. English: variant of Waldie.
2. German: habitational name for someone from any of several places in Pomerania and Brandenburg called Waldow.
FOREBEARS: Cornelius Waldo was living in Ipswich, MA, in 1647. Samuel Waldo (1695-1759) was born in Boston and became a land speculator in ME.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
