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It seems to have been a unisex name at one point; in the Victorian birth records for the UK there are a couple of Aldous Marys and Aldous Anns, and an Aldous Louise. Apparently, as a surname, it may have come from a Middle English female name, Aldus / Alduse /Aldusa, so maybe that's why there are girls with it.
I think I'd probably find it quite interesting if it was less tied to one particular famous person, especially if I saw it on a girl, knowing about its origins. But as everyone is going to think of Huxley, it seems a little self-consciously literary.