Given name & surname · also Italian
Baldo
“bold”
Baldo is a surname from Italian, ultimately from Germanic. It is used in English, Old High German, and Serbo-Croatian.
Original ItalianBaudo
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Baldo comes from Italian, and ultimately from Germanic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1916. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Baldo through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 77
- 77 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1916
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2010. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 352 as a first name in 2020; 784 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Baldo’s family of names
In Italian usage, Baldo has a diminutive in BALDINO. In English usage, Baldo as a surname shares a linguistic root with the Italian form BAUDO. In German usage, Baldo has a conventional equivalent in the Latin form BALDUS.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Baldo
- Baldus de UbaldisItalian jurist and writer (1327–1400)
- Baldo BaldiItalian fencer (1888-1961)
- Baldo Angelo AbatiItalian physician, physicist and botanist1401–1501
- Baldo ProkuricaChilean politician of Croatian descentborn 1958
- Baldo di GregorioGerman footballer (born 1984)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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