The baldwin Surname

baldwin Name Meaning and History

English: from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements bald ‘bold’, ‘brave’ + wine ‘friend’, which was extremely popular among the Normans and in Flanders in the early Middle Ages. It was the personal name of the Crusader who in 1100 became the first Christian king of Jerusalem, and of four more Crusader kings of Jerusalem. It was also borne by Baldwin, Count of Flanders (1172–1205), leader of the Fourth Crusade, who became first Latin Emperor of Constantinople (1204). As an American surname it has absorbed Dutch spellings such as Boudewijn.
Irish: surname adopted in Donegal by bearers of the Gaelic name Ó Maolagáin (see Milligan), due to association of Gaelic maol ‘bald’, ‘hairless’ with English bald.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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baldwin Family Facts

Distribution of baldwin Families in the US in 1920

Number of baldwin families

721-1439

241-720

1-240

Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 1805 - Messages: 4072

Thread	Author	Replies
William P Baldwin of Manhattan, New York New York	lhd7251	0
Baldwins, Leeds, Yorkshire, England	Jo Baldwin	2
Willis H. Baldwin	rjpetreshockjr	0
Baldwin of Philadelphia or Chester PA	Bowersott	1
Silas Baldwin	ellisbaldwin	0
Baldwin family of Sissonville, WV	Garbacz2008	0
Hannah Baldwin confusion	ljtmen311	0
Baldwins from Kentucky, Pike County?	Mark Brunty	15
Obit ~ BALDWIN, Philip Norman died 31 July 2008	familygeno	1
BALDWIN James Dee 1878 1960	t42IOOF_DenCoTX	0

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