Family name origins & meanings
- English : variant spelling of Reader.
- Dutch : variant of Reeder 2.
- North German and Dutch : from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements rād ‘counsel’ + heri ‘army’.
- North German and Dutch : occupational name for a ship owner or outfitter, from an agent derivative of Middle Low German rād ‘counsel’; ‘provisions’, ‘stock’.
- North German : habitational name from any of various places named Rieder (earlier Redere) or Reher (earlier Rethere) in northern Germany.
- Possibly an altered spelling of German Röder (see Roeder).