What We Know About the Vold Surname

There is no single Vold family crest for every bearer. Herald Lab researches the arms historically associated with the name and explains whose they were.

What Vold means

The spelling Vold grew out of Wold, an English surname with a long paper trail. The name is usually explained as “A dweller at, or in, the wold or forest”.

Only a small detail separates the spellings: Vold has “v” where Wold has “w”. Census takers and immigration officers often wrote what they heard. About 937 people in the United States were recorded as Vold in 2010, placing it 26,126 on the national list.

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