Walder Family History

English (Sussex): from Middle English walder welder wolder ‘dweller in the wooded region or upland’. Compare Waldman. This type of formation where the suffix -er is added to a topographic term is mainly found in southern England especially in Sussex, Surrey, and Kent.

English (Sussex): from the Middle English personal name Walder (Old English Wealdhere from weald ‘power, rule’ + here ‘army’), the English counterpart of the Norman French name which gives rise to the much more frequent Walter.

German: habitational name for someone from any of several places called Wald or a topographic name for someone who lived in a forest or wood, Middle High German walt.