Waldren Name Meaning, Origin and Heraldry

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Waldren, so the heraldry linked to Waldron is a starting point, not an automatic right.

Meaning of the name

Behind the Waldren surname stands Waldron, an English name that clerks and families wrote in more than one way. Taken at its root, Waldren points to “house in the forest”.

Before spelling was fixed, Waldron was also written Waldren. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. The same family of names includes Walderne. The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Waldren with 637 bearers, at rank 35,345. That puts it inside the top 50,000 US surnames.

Get the complete Waldren report, with a museum-style coat of arms.