Aldrich
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Aldrich is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from the medieval male personal name Aldrich, from Old English ElfrTc or AEthelrTc, literally 'elf ruler' or 'noble ruler'.
- USUnited States1 in 19K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 587K
- ESSpain1 in 747K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 50 (measured from records)
- 1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
17,509 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the medieval male personal name Aldrich, from Old English ElfrTc or AEthelrTc, literally 'elf ruler' or 'noble ruler'.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Aldrich 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 17,509 | 1 in 19K | 18K | Aldrich | 50 |
| ES Spain | 67 | 1 in 747K | 67 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 10 | 1 in 587K | 10 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 2 | 1 in 5.9M | 2 | — | — |
17,509 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Aldrich is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from OE Ælfrīc ‘elf-ruler’ or Æðelrīc ‘noble ruler’; first attested Ælfric, Alfric, Aluric / Adelric, Agelricus, Egelric, Ailric, Aelricus, Alricus, Aluric 1066 DB
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In Croatian, američki filmski redatelj ( Vera Cruz , Dvanaest žigosanih )
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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)
- Henry Aldrichb. 1647GBEnglish theologian, philosopher, architect, and poet; (1648-1710)
- Thomas Bailey Aldrichb. 1836USAmerican poet, novelist, editor (1836–1907)
- Nelson W. Aldrichb. 1841USAmerican politician (1841-1915)
- Pelham Aldrichb. 1844GBRoyal Navy Admiral (1844-1930)
- Truman H. Aldrichb. 1848USAmerican politician (1848-1932)
- Lucy Aldrichb. 1869USphilanthropist and art collector (1869-1955)
- Fred Aldrichb. 1904USAmerican actor (1904-1979)
- Robert Aldrichb. 1918USAmerican film director (1918–1983)
- Doug Aldrichb. 1963USAmerican guitarist
- Cole Aldrichb. 1988USAmerican basketball player (born 1988)
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 41 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 18K | #2,060 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 17K | #1,939 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 17K | #2,120 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 67 | #36,484 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 67 | #36,240 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 10 | #41,782 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 2 | #137,625 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Aldrich mean, and where does it come from?
- from the medieval male personal name Aldrich, from Old English ElfrTc or AEthelrTc, literally 'elf ruler' or 'noble ruler'. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Aldrich have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 18 thousand people named Aldrich, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aldrich.
- Where is Aldrich most common?
- Aldrich is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 19 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Aldrich?
- In the United States, the national register counted 17,509 people named Aldrich in 2010, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/aldrichThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Aldrich”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.