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Surname Etymology and Meaning of CALDWELL

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(origin: Local) Col-wold, the wood of hazels; or it may be Cold-well, a cold spring.

Source: An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names With an Essay on their Derivation and Import (1857).

English, Scottish, and northern Irish: habitational name from any of several places in England and Scotland, variously spelled, that are named with Old English cald ‘cold’ + well(a) ‘spring’, ‘stream’. Caldwell in North Yorkshire is one major source of the surname; Caldwell in Renfrewshire in Scotland another.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names (2003)