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Updated: June 9, 2019
Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : occupational name for someone who thatched cottages with reeds, from an agent derivative of Middle English rēd(en) ‘to cover with reeds’.
  • Americanized spelling of German Rieder.

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