Last name origins & meanings:
- English: topographic name for someone living by an alder tree
(Middle English al(d)re), or by a group of alders (the surname
is often found in the plural form in Middle English).
- English: from a Middle English personal name, representing a
falling together of two Old English names, Ealdhere ‘ancient
army’ and Æ{dh}elhere ‘noble army’.
- German: variant of
Alter.
- Translation of Swedish Ahl.
- Translation of Finnish Leppanen.
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