Aldis

given name · Latvian · Latin script

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

Aldis is a given name, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Latvian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from the medieval female personal name Aldus, a pet form of compound names beginning with Ald-, literally 'old'.

rarermore common
  • LVLatvia1 in 463◐
  • ISIceland1 in 766
  • UGUganda1 in 52K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈4.8K ●

across 11 countries

Sources
75 ●

1.2K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 463 ◐

Latvia

Meaning & origin●

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]

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Aldis is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
LV Latvia#1224,064△804 rec.1 in 4634.1KAldis70
IS Iceland—458—1 in 766458——
FI Finland—1460 rec.—116Aldis1
US United States—120242 rec.1 in 2.8M317Aldis75
GB United Kingdom—8651 rec.—listedAldis23
EE Estonia—7417 rec.—31Aldis7
AL Albania—55—1 in 56K55——
SE Sweden—52△3 rec.1 in 196K52—3
LT Lithuania—4515 rec.—listedAldis24
BR Brazil—27—1 in 7.8M27——
RU Russia—1819 rec.——Aldis8
PL Poland—16—1 in 2.4M16——

Roughly 4.1K people in Latvia bear this name (about 1 in 463). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

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

Languages●

  • Latvian6.4K53%
  • English2K16%
  • Icelandic8147%
  • Spanish5324%
  • Indonesian2742%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Latvian6,38853%
English1,97716%
Icelandic8147%
Spanish5324%
Indonesian2742%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

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 name6.7K records spelled Aldis6 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Aldís

  • Spanish given name1.2K records spelled Aldis6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Peru, Latvia

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Åldïs, Aldís

  • Icelandic given name981 records spelled Aldis9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Iceland, Denmark, United States, Sweden

    Languages: Icelandic, Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Aldís

  • French given name211 records spelled Aldis3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Latvia, United States

    Also written Aldís

  • a separate given name133 records spelled Aldis2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Latvia

    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●

Aldis is also recorded in 3 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 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

  • In Latvian, Vīrieša vārds

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

  • 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.

Over time●

010203020102015202024 · 2016

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Aldis in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 2009–2020
Yearrecords
200910
201010
201113
201218
201320
201420
201523
201624
201721
201819
201922
202022

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 12 years between 2009–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

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●

Attested in 49 sources across 30 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 — Surname Frequency 20202020317#67,188
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000287#64,750
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010271#71,886
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—124#6,682
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020120#43,063
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—116#4,778
AL AlbaniaINSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts)—55#4,052
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—52#13,208
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202045#43,063
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—44#4,575

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 2026-09-12 data build · 121 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Aldis?
We estimate roughly 4.8 thousand people bear Aldis (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Aldis have the most bearers?
We estimate about 4.1 thousand people bear Aldis in Latvia, more than in any other country in our records, 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 Aldis compared with other names?
In Latvia, Aldis is the 122nd most common given name of 17,921 given names recorded there.
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.
What does the name Aldis mean?
Recorded meaning: from the medieval female personal name Aldus, a pet form of compound names beginning with Ald-, literally 'old'.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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 122nd most common given name in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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