Name: Waldo
Gender: Male
Usage: Waldo is a popular first name. It is more often used as a boy (male) name.
People having the name Waldo are in general originating from France, Germany, Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Waldo is: Ruler, Powerful.
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Numerology of the first name Waldo: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 1. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: individualistic, determined, pioneering, bold, athletic, independent, active, self-confident.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Leader, Determined
Ruling planet: Sun
Colors: Yellow, Orange, Gold
Gemstones: Topaz, Amber
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The name Waldo is ranked on the 7,715th position of the most used names. It means that this name is commonly used.
We estimate that there are at least 35000 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.001% of the population. The name Waldo has five characters. It means that it is relatively medium-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Waldo for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
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History and Origin
Waldo is a masculine given name which may refer to:
People:
- Abbot Waldo of Reichenau (740–814), advisor of Charlemagne
- Waldo Cabrera, Dominican-American businessman and activist
- Waldo Colburn (1824–1885), American politician
- Waldo A. Evans (1869–1936), American naval captain and military governor
- Waldo Frank (1889–1967), American novelist, historian, and critic
- Waldo E. Harder (1918–1976), president of Grace University
- M. Waldo Hatler (1894–1967), American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
- Waldo Hutchins (1822–1891), U.S. Congressman
- Waldo P. Johnson (1817–1885), U.S. senator and Confederate congressman
- Waldo Kantor (born 1960), Argentine volleyball player
- Waldo K. Lyon (1914–1998), U.S. Navy physicist
- Waldo Machado (born 1934), Brazilian former footballer
- Waldo McBurney (1902–2009), credited as "America's Oldest Worker"
- Waldo Ponce, Chilean football player
- Waldo (musician) (born Marko Reijonen in 1967), Finnish eurodance musician
- Waldo de los Ríos (1934–1977), Argentine composer and conductor
- Waldo Salt (1914–1987), American screenwriter
- Waldo E. Sexton (1885–1967), American businessman
- Waldo Vieira (born 1932), Brazilian physician and spiritual medium
- Waldo Williams (1904–1971), Welsh language poet
Fictional characters:
- Waldo (in the U.S. and Canada; Wally elsewhere), central character in the Where's Wally? children's book series and television show
- "Waldo", nickname of the tourist guy in a 9/11 attack hoax photograph
- Waldo Faldo, a character from the television series Family Matters
- Waldo Farthingwaite-Jones, title character of "Waldo" (short story) by Robert A. Heinlein
- Waldo Pepper, title character of the film The Great Waldo Pepper
- Waldo Schaeffer, aka Franz Hopper, a character from the French animated television series Code Lyoko
English and German: a short form of any of several old Germanic personal names containing wald rule as a first element (possibly also as a second element). This gave rise in the early Middle Ages to a surname, borne notably by Peter Waldo, a 12th-century merchant of Lyons, who founded a reformist Catholic sect known as the Waldensians, which in the 16th century joined the Reformation movement. In America the name is particularly associated with the poet and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82), whose father was a Lutheran clergyman.
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