Aldrich

At the 2020 census, 16,600 Americans bore the surname Aldrich — 2,120th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 18,000.

By the numbers

People: 16,600
Rank: 2,120th
How common: 1 in 18,000
Per 100,000: 5.6

Where the name comes from

From either Old English Ælfrīc (“elf-ruler”) or Æðelrīc (“noble ruler”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Aldrich described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 89.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Black, not Hispanic 1.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Aldrich

Robert Aldrich (1918–1983)American film director
Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907)American poet, novelist, editor
Doug Aldrich (born 1963)American guitarist
Cole Aldrich (born 1988)American basketball player
Nelson W. Aldrich (1841–1915)American politician
Henry Aldrich (1648–1710)English theologian, philosopher, architect, and poet;
Abigail Greene Aldrich (1874–1948)American socialite and philanthropist
Louisa Aldrich-Blake (1865–1925)British surgeon and medical school dean

People named Aldrich with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Aldrich

Also a first name

Aldrich has been given to 614 American babies as a first name since 1909, peaking in 2017. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.