Aldine

Meaning & origin●(measured from records)

How Aldine is read●(measured from records)

Aldine 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.

• English67%

  from OE Ealdwine; first attested Ælfwine Aldine c1095 Bury (Sf)

  as a name·A Dictionary of English Surnames

  Of or pertaining to the publications of Aldo Manuzio, Venetian printer.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• Portuguese10%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Aldine in Portuguese.

• French8.7%

  feminine singular of aldin

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

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

Aldine is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Portuguese given name6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Philippines, Argentina

  Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

  Also written Áldine, Aldinê, Åldine, Aldiné

• French given name2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Philippines, United States, Congo - Kinshasa

  Also written Ãldïnë

• Arabic given name4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Syria, Egypt, Algeria, Saudi Arabia

  Also written Al-Dine, Al-Dīne, Al-Dîne

• a separate name2 spellings in the group

  Also written Áldine

40 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)

Aldine 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 Italian, feminine plural of aldino

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

• Éloi-Noël Béraudb. 1875FRnot in their usual nameFrench painter (1875-1957)

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).

How to address them○(machine-generated)

Evidence●(measured from records)

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

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Aldine mean, and where does it come from?

from OE Ealdwine; first attested Ælfwine Aldine c1095 Bury (Sf) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.

How do you pronounce Aldine?

A machine transcription gives /əldin/ (IPA) for English.

Is Aldine a male or female name?

Aldine 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 Aldine have the most bearers?

Mondonomo estimates about 817 people named Aldine in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aldine.

How common is the name Aldine?

In Brazil, the national register counted 397 people named Aldine in 2022, about 1 in 533 thousand residents.