wold/wəʊld/Etymology* As a Norwegian surname, spelling variant of Vold, Voll. * As an English surname, from wold (“forest”).wold means A surname. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 82 out of 100.nameA surname.nounAn unforested or deforested plain, a grassland, a moor.“Saint Withold footed thrice the ’old; He met the nightmare, and her nine fold;”A wood or forest, especially a wooded upland.adjOld.“"[A] girt wind had a-blowed the wold tree auver, so that his head were in the water."”