Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German : pet form of the personal name Riede.
  • South German : variant of the topographic name Ried ‘mossy area’.
  • South German : pet form of a Germanic personal name formed with Middle Low German rīden, Middle High German rītan ‘to ride’. Compare Reidel 3.

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