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waldman Name Meaning and History

  1. Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Yiddish wald ‘forest’ + man ‘man’. Very few Jews would have been living anywhere near a forest at the time when they acquired surnames, so in most cases this is probably an ornamental name. In other cases it many be a metonymic occupational name for someone whose job was connected with forestry, such as a woodcutter or lumber merchant.
  2. Americanized spelling of German Waldmann.
  3. English: topographic name for a forest dweller, from Old English w(e)ald ‘forest’ + mann ‘man’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of waldman Families in the US in 1920
Number of waldman families
 142-282
 48-141		 1-47
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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