as a Last Name
- 5,745
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Waldman
Meaning & Origins
Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Yiddish wald ‘forest’ + man ‘man’. Very few Jews would have been living anywhere near a forest at the time when they acquired surnames, so in most cases this is probably an ornamental name. In other cases it many be a metonymic occupational name for someone whose job was connected with forestry, such as a woodcutter or lumber merchant.
| 5,254th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 5,745
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- New York
- has the most people named Waldman per capita
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