Given name & surname
Aldis
“from the ancient house”
Aldis is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “from the ancient house.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “from the ancient house.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1917. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Aldis through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 24
- 24 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1920
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 1967. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 8 in 1920. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 165 as a first name in 2020; 317 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Aldis’s family of names
Aldis has a related form in Aldo. Aldis has a related form in Aldiss. Aldis has a related form in Aldisse.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 6
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Aldis
- Aldis HodgeAmerican actorborn 1986
- Aldis BerzinsAmerican volleyball playerborn 1956
- Aldis IntlersLatvian bobsledder (1965-1994)
- Aldis KušķisLatvian politician (born 1965)
- Aldis GobzemsLatvian politician and lawyer (born 1978)
- Aldis BernardCanadian politician1810–1876
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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