Alderdice
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Alderdice
Frequency: (120)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Scottish: habitational name from Allardice in Kincardineshire, now part of Aberdeenshire. The first element of the place name is Old English alor ‘alder’; the second element is obscure.
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