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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant of Alden.
  • North German : patronymic from Old.
  • Norwegian : habitational name from a farmstead in Trøndelag, probably taking its name from the Old Norse fjord name Áldi, of unexplained etymology.
  • Swedish (Oldén) : unexplained.

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