English: from a Middle English personal name. This is either
Aldan, a variant of Healfdane (see Haldane), or
Aldine, Old English Ealdwine, literally ‘old friend’,
but probably to be interpreted as ‘friend of the past’.Norwegian:
habitational name from a farmstead in western Norway, so named because
of its situation below a high mountain.
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