 The town's name of "Warden" comes from its Bessarabian German heritage and means "worthy" or "treasured" as may be noted in the "Das Deutsche Woerterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm".A local tradition attributes the name of the town to Doc Harris's son Ward.However, the area of the town was being referred to as "Warden" by its German settlers long before Doc Harris arrived, as may be noted in the "Protokol", official church records in German of the original church which is today the Warden Community Church.