ALDEN

'Alden' as a first or given name originated in old English. Most sources trace it to "ald wyn", meaning "old friend", though it is sometimes given as meaning "old one". As a placename it can refer to 'the Alder', the tree (''alnus'') of the birch family, such as the Alden Valley, Rossendale, England, UK. An island in Norway is also called Alden.
'Alden' is the name of several places in the United States:

★ Alden, Iowa

★ Alden, Kansas

★ Alden, Michigan

★ Alden, Minnesota

★ Alden (town), New York

★ Alden (village), New York

★ Alden, Wisconsin

★ Alden Township, Illinois

★ Alden Township, Freeborn County, Minnesota

★ Alden Township, St. Louis County, Minnesota

★ Alden Township, North Dakota

★ Alden Township, South Dakota
'Alden' can also refer to the following:

★ Alden Prepress Services Limited, Chennai

★ USS ''Alden'' was a destroyer in the United States Navy

★ Alden (crater) on the Moon, which has an eponym of Harold Alden.

★ Deborah Alden, member of the House of Representatives in the Wyoming legislature.

★ Debra Alden a screen actress who appeared in Code of the West

★ John Alden, one of the Pilgrims on the Mayflower

★ Kay Alden, writer of the soap opera The Young and the Restless

★ Vernon Roger Alden

★ Alden v. Maine, a United States Supreme Court case

★ Alden Shoe Company, a men's shoemaker in Middleborough, Massachusetts

★ Alden is a small island in Norway, in Sogn og Fjordane county.

★ Alden Aaroe a locally famous broadcaster for WRVA

★ Neil Alden Armstrong was the first man to set foot on the moon.