indicate the level to which a name has been verified.
Type Surname (from given name)
Usage North Frisian, Dutch
Meaning & History
Either from a reduced form of the Germanic personal name Baldeke (a short form of any of the compound names with the first element bald ‘bold’, for example Baldewin) or from Middle Low German baec, bake ‘pork’, ‘bacon’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a butcher or pig farmer.