Alden Family History
- Alden Name Meaning
- English: from a Middle English personal name. This is either Aldan, a variant of Healfdane (see Haldane), or Aldine, Old English Ealdwine, literally ‘old friend’, but probably to be interpreted as ‘friend of the past’. Norwegian: habitational name from a farmstead in western Norway, so named because of its situation below a high mountain.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 995,445 Historical Documents with Alden on Ancestry
- 129,559 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 68,057 Census and Voter Lists
- 16,702 Military Records
- 7,044 Immigration Records
- 774,083 Member Trees
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Number of Alden families
 107 - 211  36 - 106 |
 1 - 35  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Alden families
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11 - 19 4 - 10 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Alden census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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