What We Know About the Waldon Surname

The last name Waldon is another written form of Walden, a well-known English family name. The name is usually explained as “Valley of the Britons”.

• Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written.
• Waldon ranked 7,900 in the 2010 US Census, with 4,190 people answering to the name. That is enough to place it in the top 10,000 American surnames.
• Other spellings include Walding.
• Before spelling was fixed, Walden was also written Waldon.

Family crest and blazon

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