Alwarthy is used as a family name or surname in Ireland, England. It is 8 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Alwarthy
No. of characters: 8
Origin: Ireland, England
Meaning:

Surname Alwarthy is a form of Hallward. The keeper of a hall.

Alwarthy is variant form of Ellwood. See Elwood - Several tenants in chief in Domesday are called Alwoldus or Aldwold, a contraction of the Anglo-Saxon Æthelwald. A border clan of Elwood existed temp. Elizabeth. In a MS. tract copied in Archäologia, XXII., 168, it is stated in reference to Liddesdale, that "the strength of this country consisteth two surnames of Armestronges and Elwoodes."

Alwarthy is the variant of Ellard. Descendant of Alward or Elward meaning "elf guardian," or of Eliard meaning "little Elias".

Form of the Aylward. Descendant of Aylward meaning noble, guardian.

The surname is variant form of Alward. Variant of Alford meaning one who came from a place named Alford which means the alder ford, or the ford of Ealdgyth.

The variation of the Aylward. Ælward and Ailward were personal names before 1086.

The surname Alwarthy is a variation of Ellard. Elard, an Anglo-Saxon personal name.

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