Given name
Ealdræd
“old, wise”·“advice, counsel”
Ealdræd is a masculine given name from Proto-West Germanic. It is used in Old English.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Ealdræd is built from elements meaning “old, wise” and “advice, counsel”.
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How it developed
From Proto-West Germanic *Aldarād, built from Proto-West Germanic *ald (“old, wise”) + *rād (“advice, counsel”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Ealdræd’s family of names
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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