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:
Swedish: from al ‘alder’ + the common surname suffix -inder (probably taken from Greek andros, genitive of anēr ‘man’).