Baldey Family History

From the Middle English female personal name Baldith (Old English *Bealdgȳð formed with beald ‘bold, brave’ + gȳð ‘combat, war’) or from the Middle English female personal name Baldive (Old English *Bealdgifu formed from beald + gifu ‘gift’).

In Suffolk, possibly from a Middle English survival of the Old Scandinavian male personal name Baldi, from an ancestor of Old Scandinavian ballr, having a sense like Old English beald ‘bold, brave’.