Skip to main content

Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : ostensibly a topographic name for someone dwelling ‘at the ridge’, but in most if not all cases actually a derivative of the Middle English personal name Atteriche, Old English Æ{dh}elrīc (see Etheridge).

Subscribe to Family Education

Your partner in parenting from baby name inspiration to college planning.

Subscribe