American Family Name Origins:
Ahlstedt
Frequency: (106)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Swedish: ornamental name composed of the elements al ‘alder’ + the German element -stedt ‘place’, a common element of Swedish compound names.
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