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,
Bealdg¯{dh}, meaning ‘bold combat’, first recorded
c.1170 as Baldith, and in others from the Old Norse
personal name Baldi.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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