Aldis

given name · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Aldis is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country, where it is the 93rd most common given name. In English, recorded as from the medieval female personal name Aldus, a pet form of compound names beginning with Ald-, literally 'old'.

rarermore common
  • LVLatvia1 in 463(measured from records)
  • ISIceland1 in 843
  • UGUganda≈1 in 16K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Latvia (measured from records)

4,064 people

Sources
86 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 463 (inferred from the name graph)

Latvia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

from the medieval female personal name Aldus, a pet form of compound names beginning with Ald-, literally 'old'.

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

How Aldis is read(measured from records)

Aldis is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Latvian50%

    Vīrieša vārds

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • English25%

    from the medieval female personal name Aldus, a pet form of compound names beginning with Ald-, literally 'old'.

    as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

    from Aldus, a pet form of a woman’s name in Ald-; Scottish branch from Auldhous, Eastwood, Renfrewshire; first attested Radulfus filius Alduse 1168 P (Y)

    as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames

  • Spanish6.0%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Aldis in Spanish.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Aldis counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Aldis is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
LV Latvia#934,0641 in 4634.1KAldis80
UG Uganda—≈2,800 est.≈1 in 16K—Aldis1
IS Iceland—4161 in 843416——
US United States—1651 in 2M317Aldis86
GB United Kingdom—≈73 est.≈1 in 899KlistedAldis28
LT Lithuania—≈67 est.≈1 in 41KlistedAldis23
EE Estonia—≈33 est.≈1 in 37K31Aldis6

4,064 people counted by PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the penguin-baby-names-2009 register; Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed); the lt-vlkk-vardai register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Aldis is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Latvia, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Aldís

  • Spanish given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Peru, Latvia, Venezuela

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Aldís, Åldïs

  • Icelandic given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Iceland, Sweden, United States, Denmark

    Languages: Icelandic, Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Aldís

  • French given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Latvia, United States

    Also written Aldís

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Aldís

42 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Aldis is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, in Lettland geläufiger männl. Vom. (zu lit. aldeit »lärmen«).

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

180018501900195020002050Aldis Bernard, b. 1810William Aldis Wright, b. 1831Aldis Berzins, b. 1956Aldis Intlers, b. 1965Aldis Kušķis, b. 1965Aldis Gobzems, b. 1978Aldis Āboliņš, b. 1985Aldis Hodge, b. 1986Aldís Amah Hamilton, b. 1991Aldís Kara Bergsdóttir, b. 2003

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 50 sources across 31 countries.

Official registers attesting Aldis
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
LV LatviaPMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register)—4.1K—
LV LatviaPMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup)—4K#133
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020120#43,063
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202045#43,063
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—31#1,196
IS IcelandÞjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry)202612—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)19676—
EE EstoniaSiseministeerium — population register name list 20232023——
LT LithuaniaVLKK — Lietuvos Respublikos piliečių vardų sąvadas (recommended names)———
GB United KingdomThe Penguin Book of Baby Names (David Pickering)———

Reference works 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Aldis mean, and where does it come from?
from the medieval female personal name Aldus, a pet form of compound names beginning with Ald-, literally 'old'. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
Is Aldis a male or female name?
Aldis is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Aldis have the most bearers?
In Latvia, the national register counted about 4.1 thousand people named Aldis, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aldis.
Where is Aldis most common?
Aldis is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 463 people carrying it.
How common is the name Aldis?
In Latvia, the national register counted 4,064 people named Aldis, about 1 in 463 residents.
How common is Aldis compared with other names?
In Latvia, Aldis is the 93rd most common given name of 11,601 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Aldis” — the 93rd most common given name in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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