Wild Family History
Wild Name Meaning
English: from Middle English wilde ‘wild violent’ (Old English wilde) hence a nickname for a man of violent and undisciplined character or a topographic name for someone who lived on a patch of overgrown uncultivated land (from Middle English wilde (noun) ‘wild place wasteland’). English: variant of Wile with excrescent -d. German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): cognate of 1 above from Middle High German wilde wilt German wild ‘wild’ also used in the sense ‘strange foreign’ and therefore in some cases a nickname for an incomer.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022