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    The surname Aldred

    An English surname, carried by 1,199 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex A436

    Aldred: #21,707 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Aldred #21,707, 1,199 people Aldred: #21,707 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Aldred #21,707, 1,199 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Aldred is more common than 86.6% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From Old English personal name Æþelred (“well-advised”).

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,199 people named Aldred in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 257,503 Americans. That is up 1.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,178.

    #21,707
    rank among US surnames
    1,199
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.8%
    change since 2000 (was #20,831)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #21,700Schnitzler1,200257,288
    #21,707Fino1,199257,503

    Who is named Aldred

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

    88% of people named Aldred identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.5% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 88%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 6.5%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
    • Two or more races 1.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Variant spellings

    Surnames that sound like Aldred

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

    Other English surnames

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    Questions

    Where does the surname Aldred come from?
    From Old English personal name Æþelred (“well-advised”).
    How common is the surname Aldred?
    1,199 people in the United States had the surname Aldred in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 257,503 Americans. It ranked 21,707th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Aldred?
    In the 2010 Census, 88% of people named Aldred identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.5% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Aldred getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,178 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,199 in 2010, up 1.8%.
    What are other spellings of Aldred?
    Allred and Alred.