Wald is used as a family name or surname in Ireland, Scotland. It is 4 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Wald
No. of characters: 4
Origin: Ireland, Scotland
Meaning:

Wald is variation of the Wold. An unwooded hill.

The variant of Wildish. The Weald of Sussex is commonly called 'The Wild,' and its denizens, however harmless and civil, are known on the South Downs, and other neighbouring localities, as "Wildish men."

The variant of the Waldie. This family, long settled near Kelso, county of Roxburgh, have at different times written themselves Waitho, Watho, Waltho, and Waldie. The etymology is unknown. Antiquatarian Ferguson makes it the same as the Scandinavian name Valdi.

Surname is the form of the Wold. Dweller at, or in, the wold or forest.

Dweller near, or in a forest; one who came from Wald, i.e., forest, in Germany.

The variant of Waddy. The same as Wadding - Perhaps the patronymical form of the Anglo-Saxon Wade. 'Waddington, Waddingham, Waddingworth, etc., as names of places, seem to be derived from this source. According to historian D'Alton the name is of record in Ireland, from temp. Edward III.

Surname Wald is variant of the Waldy. The same as Waldie - This family, long settled near Kelso, county of Roxburgh, have at different times written themselves Waitho, Watho, Waltho, and Waldie. The etymology is unknown. Antiquatarian Ferguson makes it the same as the Scandinavian name Valdi.

How popular is Wald?

Wald is common in United States, Germany, Canada, Morocco, France, Austria, Australia, Iran, England, Argentina.

Wald is ranked 35205 on our list.

As per 2010 US census, number of Walds plummeted by 17.37 per cent to 4057 since 2000 and slipped by 1788 spots and ranked at 8172. The last name was found in around 1 per hundred thousand population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 91.74 92.38
Black 3.25 3.71
Hispanic or Latino 2.05 1.61
Others 1.36 1.38
Asian and Native Hawaiian
& Other Pacific Islander		 1.08 0.45
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.52 0.47
Wald is quite popular family name mostly used in United States however Germany is ahead in terms of density. Around 15030 people have been found who wears Wald as their family name. Wald is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with thousands of Wald:
6,828 United States6,295
1,861 Germany5,620
Countries with hundreds of Wald:
6,875 Canada632
15,801 Morocco375
31,948 France323
4,258 Austria316
12,949 Australia231
27,907 Iran169
32,340 England109
31,358 Argentina104
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
42,551 Poland97
7,628 Sweden93
2,335 Panama83
11,841 Hungary77
22,715 Czechia73
34,881 Netherlands59
59,404 South Africa58
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
120,092 Brazil47
32,024 Papua New Guinea35
30,429 Switzerland20
445,856 India19
23,165 New Zealand18
25,792 Denmark15
322,587 Russia15
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 6 - 10:
32,607 Saudi Arabia9
87,318 Belgium9
476,604 Thailand8
23,885 Uruguay8
49,535 Algeria8
39,591 Venezuela7
55,922 Qatar6
23,065 Taiwan6
51,993 United Arab Emirates6
35,997 Chile6
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Immigrants to US

From Germany

Doris Wald was 23 years old when she migrated to New York on May 9, 1850. She lived in Flensburg, Schleswig Holstein and took British Queen from Hamburg. Hermann Wald (32) Farmer, Petrus Wald, Margaretha Wald, Georg Wald, Alex Wald, aged 24, And. Wald (26), Factor Ferd. Wald, Georg Wald (22), Farmer Betty Wald, and 219 other Wald around 46.85% of whom were farmer while others worked as peasant and servant, stoner, smith, shoemaker, tailor, laborer, merchant, spinster, cigar maker, dyer migrated to US from Hamburg, Havre and Bremen.

Wald Namesakes

  • Robert Wald, American physicist
  • Eliot Wald, comedy writer
  • George Wald, American scientist
  • Abraham Wald, Hungarian mathematician
  • Patricia Wald, American judge
  • Jerry Wald, American screenwriter and a producer of films and radio programs
  • Lillian Wald, American nurse, humanitarian and author
  • Charles F. Wald, former Deputy Commander of United States European Command

Wald Namesakes

  • Robert Wald, American physicist
  • Eliot Wald, comedy writer
  • George Wald, American scientist
  • Abraham Wald, Hungarian mathematician
  • Patricia Wald, American judge
  • Jerry Wald, American screenwriter and a producer of films and radio programs
  • Lillian Wald, American nurse, humanitarian and author
  • Charles F. Wald, former Deputy Commander of United States European Command

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