Boy name origins & meanings
- Old English : Horseman
Boy name variations
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Family name origins & meanings
- English : occupational name for a mounted warrior or messenger, late Old English rīdere (from rīdan ‘to ride’), a term quickly displaced after the Conquest by the new sense of Knight.
- English : topographic name for someone who lived in a clearing in woodland. Compare Read 2.
- Irish : part translation of Gaelic Ó Marcaigh ‘descendant of Marcach’, a byname meaning ‘horseman’. The Gaelic name is also Anglicized as Markey.
- Americanized form of German Reiter.