First name content excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to 30,000 Baby Names © 2005 by Marcia Layton Turner. Buy this book online or call 1-800-253-6476.
Last name content copyright © 2006 Patrick Hanks.
Last name origin & meaning:
Scottish: habitational name from Allardice in Kincardineshire, now part of Aberdeenshire. The first element of the place name is Old English alor ‘alder’; the second element is obscure.