Names

Medieval variant of Aldous.

From a Germanic name, derived from the elements ald “old” and ric “ruler, mighty”. Saint Aldric was a 9th-century bishop of Le Mans.

Variant of Etheldred.

Probably a diminutive of names beginning with the Old English element eald “old”. It has been in use as an English given name since the Middle Ages, mainly in East Anglia [1]. The British author Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) was a famous bearer of this name.

Meaning unknown. This was the name of a 14th-century Polish queen, the daughter of a Grand Duke of Lithuania.

Originally a short form of Germanic names beginning with the element ald “old”, and possibly also with adal “noble”.

Middle English form of Ealdgyð.

Bosnian feminine form of Ala al-Din.

Feminine form of Aldo.

Bosnian form of Ala al-Din.