How common is the surname Alder?

3,885 people in the United States had the surname Alder in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 79,471 Americans. It ranked 8,485th of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Alder?

Berni Alder, American physicist (1925–2020), followed by Ray Alder.

Where is the surname Alder most common?

Wikidata records people named Alder in Switzerland, the United States and the United Kingdom.

How do you pronounce Alder?

Alder is [ˈɑl.dɚ], 2 syllables.

Is the surname Alder getting more or less common?

More common. 3,471 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,885 in 2010, up 12%.

The surname Alder

A place surname, carried by 3,885 people in the United States.

Pronounced [ˈɑl.dɚ] 2 syllables Soundex A436

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Alder is more common than 94.8% of them.

Origin

A topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived by alder trees.

Alder is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,885 people named Alder in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 79,471 Americans. That is up 12% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,471.

#8,485

rank among US surnames

3,885

people in 2010

1.3

per 100,000 Americans

+11.9%

change since 2000 (was #8,712)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#8,477	Reinhard	3,893	79,308
#8,478	Matute	3,892	79,328
#8,479	Cann	3,890	79,369
#8,481	Horta	3,889	79,389
#8,482	Frink	3,888	79,410
#8,483	Sirois	3,887	79,430
#8,484	Trump	3,886	79,451

Who is named Alder

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

90% of people named Alder identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.2% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 90%
Black (not Hispanic) 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.0%
Two or more races 1.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Alders

3 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Berni Alder
American physicist (1925–2020)
Ray Alder
American musician, born 1967
Jim Alder
British distance runner, born 1940

Notable Alders come mostly from Switzerland (1), the United States (1) and the United Kingdom (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Older

Surnames that sound like Alder

Alder has the Soundex code A436, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code A436.

Questions

How common is the surname Alder?: 3,885 people in the United States had the surname Alder in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 79,471 Americans. It ranked 8,485th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Alder?: In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Alder identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.2% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Alder?: Berni Alder, American physicist (1925–2020), followed by Ray Alder.
Where is the surname Alder most common?: Wikidata records people named Alder in Switzerland, the United States and the United Kingdom.
How do you pronounce Alder?: Alder is [ˈɑl.dɚ], 2 syllables.
What type of surname is Alder?: Alder is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Alder getting more or less common?: More common. 3,471 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,885 in 2010, up 12%.
What are other spellings of Alder?: Older.