When Alvar Kjell Axtelius was born on 18 March 1906, in Göteborg och Bohus, Sweden, his father, Karl August Karlson, was 34 and his mother, Alma Maria Victoria Axtelius, was 24. He died on 30 March 1907, in Partille, Göteborg och Bohus, Sweden, at the age of 1, and was buried in Partille, Göteborg och Bohus, Sweden.
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As a medieval name this was from the Old English personal name Ælfhere, composed of ælf ‘elf, supernatural being’ + here ‘army, warrior’. In modern use it may be a revival of this, a transferred use of the surname derived from it, or an Anglicized form of Spanish Álvaro, a Visigothic personal name derived from Germanic al ‘all’ + war ‘guard’.
Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.
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