Balderston
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘Person from Balderstone’, Lancashire; from ‘Baldhere’s farmstead’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Balderston is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- AUAustralia
- CACanada
- GBUnited Kingdom
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)‘Person from Balderstone’, Lancashire; from ‘Baldhere’s farmstead’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
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Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Balderston is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from Balderston or Balderstone, Lancashire; first attested William de Baldreston 1292 WhC (Lancashire)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, places in Lancs, called Balderston(e), deriving their names from the gen. case of the OE personal name Bealdhere (composed of the elements beald bold, brave + here army) + OE tun enclosure, settlement. A place of the same name and etymology in the former county of W Lothian may be the source of some examples of the surname in Scotland. Vars.: Balderstone, Bo(u)lderstone.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In English, William de Baldreston 1292 WhC (La). From Balderston (Lancs) or Balderstone (Lancs).
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Lydia Ray Balderstoneb. 1873USnot in their usual nameUS-american instructor for housewifery and author
- John L. Balderstonb. 1889USAmerican writer (1889-1954)
- Caroline Balderston Parryb. 1945CACanadian writer (1945–2022)
- Kurt BalderstonCACanadian curler
- Gordon Balderstonarchaeologist
- Elwood BalderstonUSAmerican politician (died 1921)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 687 | #33,280 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 684 | #31,884 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 662 | #36,396 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 5 | #64,779 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of English Surnames (Reaney & Wilson, 1991) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Balderston mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘Person from Balderstone’, Lancashire; from ‘Baldhere’s farmstead’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Balderston have the most bearers?
- Balderston is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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About this data
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Balderston”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.