Kolden Family History
Kolden Name Meaning
Norwegian: habitational name from a farm called Kolden from Old Norse kollr ‘rounded mountain top’. German: from Middle Low German kolt kolde ‘cold’ a nickname for an unfriendly person. The surname Kolden (in any of the possible senses; see also 3 below) is very rare in Germany. German: alternatively a shortened form of Koldenhof a habitational name meaning literally ‘cold farm’ in Mecklenburg a cognate of Kalthoff . (Standardized form is Kaltenhof a frequent placename in northern Germany former East Prussia also in Bavaria and Württemberg.)
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022