Frequency: (266)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Americanized spelling of German Waldhauer, an occupational name for a woodsman, from Middle High German walt ‘woods’, ‘forest’ + agent derivative of houwen ‘to hew’, ‘cut’, ‘chop’.
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