Baldwin

Meanings

Proper Noun

• A male given name from Germanic languages; rather rare in English.
• Stanley Baldwin, British Prime Minister.
• Baldwin IV, ruler of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem before the takeover of Saladin in 1187. He died in 1185 of complications of the socially unacceptable disease of leprosy. Also known as the leper king.
• A placename

Noun

• A reddish, moderately acid, winter apple.

Origin

• From Proto-West Germanic *Balþawini, from Proto-Germanic *Balþawiniz ("bold friend").