Alden

Where Alden comes from

From Old English Ealdwine, from eald (“old”) + wine (“friend”); equivalent to Alwin. In some cases a variant of Haldane.
— Wiktionary's entry for Alden
  • Old English
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #640 among boys — 9 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1899
    Alden Sanborn born
    American rower
  3. 1911
    Peak, #426
    46 babies named Alden — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1989
    Alden Ehrenreich born
    American actor
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Old English transferred back from the surname.
Namesakes
  • Alden Ehrenreich · American actor, born 1989
  • Alden Sanborn · American rower, 1899–1991
  • Alden W. Clausen · American businessman, President of the World Bank, 1981-1986, 1923–2013
  • Alden Richards · Filipino actor and television personality, born 1992
  • Alden McLaughlin · Caymanian politician, born 1961

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.