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The alder Surname

alder Name Meaning and History

  1. English: topographic name for someone living by an alder tree (Middle English al(d)re), or by a group of alders (the surname is often found in the plural form in Middle English).
  2. English: from a Middle English personal name, representing a falling together of two Old English names, Ealdhere ‘ancient army’ and Æ{dh}elhere ‘noble army’.
  3. German: variant of Alter.
  4. Translation of Swedish Ahl.
  5. Translation of Finnish Leppanen.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The alder name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the alder family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of alder Families in the US in 1920
Number of alder families
 24-45
 9-23		 1-8
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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