Given name & surname
Aldred
“an old advisor”
Aldred is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “an old advisor.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “an old advisor.”
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
Aldred through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 64
- 64 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1917
- 9 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 5 in 1991. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 9 in 1917. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 160 as a first name in 2020; 1,223 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.
Aldred’s family of names
Aldred has a feminine form in Aldreda. Aldred has a related form in Aldraed. Aldred has a related form in Aldread.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 9
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Alredvariant · English
- Allredvariant · English
- Alldreadvariant
- Aldreadvariant
- Alldraedvariant
- Aldraedvariant
- Alldredvariant
- Ealdrǣdvariant · Old English
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Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Aldred
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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