Definition of "Waldo"

Waldo

proper noun
1. A male given name from Old English, in modern American use transferred back from the surname.
  Quotations
  He was our first baby, born September 4, 1939, our only boy. Named Waldo after a kind of bakin powder I liked. 'Waldo's Cream Powder.'
  2002, Annie Proulx, That Old Ace in the Hole, page 217
2. A surname transferred from the given name.