Ridler

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.