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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : occupational name for a sifter of flour and meal, from an agent derivative of Middle English rid(e)len ‘to sift’ (from Old English hriddel ‘sieve’).
  • German : topographic name from Bavarian Ridel ‘hill’.
  • Perhaps an altered spelling of German Riedler, a variant of Rieder or Riedel.

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