Given name
Baldvin
“courageous”·“friend, companion”
Baldvin is a masculine given name from Old English. It is used in Faroese.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Baldvin is built from elements meaning “courageous” and “friend, companion”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Baldvin’s family of names
In Faroese usage, Baldvin shares a linguistic root with the English form Baldwin. In Icelandic usage, Baldvin has a conventional equivalent in the French form Baudouin.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 8
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Baldvin
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