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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from the Middle English personal name Alured, a form of Alfred, which was sometimes written Alvred, especially in Old French texts. The v was misread as a vowel, since v and u were written identically and not regarded as distinct letters.
  • English : from the Middle English personal name Alrit, a variant of Aldred.

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