Last name: WALDEN
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WALDEN : This last name is indexed 61,757 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
WALDEN : 1: English: habitational name from Kings Walden and Saint Pauls Walden (Hertfordshire) Saffron Waldon (Essex) Waldon in Milton Damerel (Devon) and Walden (North Yorkshire). The placenames derives from Old English walh ‘foreigner Briton serf’ (genitive plural wala) + denu ‘valley’.2: German: patronymic from Wald 3.3: Americanized form of Norwegian Wolden or Volden.
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