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Updated April 18, 2022

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Gaelic : Poet

Boy name variations

How Popular Is The Name Riordan

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : reduced form of O’Riordan, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Ríoghbhárdáin ‘descendant of Rióghbhárdán’, a byname composed of the elements ríogh- ‘royal’ + a diminutive of bárd ‘bard’, ‘poet’.

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