Folden Family History
Folden Name Meaning
Norwegian: habitational name from either of two farmsteads in central Norway originally taking their names from a fjord named ‘the wide (fjord)’. Scottish: variant of Fulton a habitational name from Fulton in Bedrule Roxburghshire. English: habitational name from Foulden in Norfolk from Old English fugol ‘bird’ + dūn ‘hill’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022