Last name origin & meaning: English: from the Middle English and Old French female personal
name Alis (Alice), which, together with its diminutive
Alison, was extremely popular in England in the Middle
Ages. The personal name is of Germanic origin, brought to England from
France by the Normans; it is a contracted form of Germanic
Adalhaid(is), which is composed of the elements adal
‘noble’ + haid ‘brilliance’, ‘beauty’.
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