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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from a Middle English personal name, Alday, which is either a survival of an unrecorded Old English personal name Æ{dh}eldæg or from a cognate continental form, Aildag, imported to England from France by the Normans. The ultimate etymology in both cases is Germanic adal ‘noble’ + dag ‘day’.
  • Americanized form of German Aldag.

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