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- 4,728
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Riddell
Meaning & Origins
Scottish and northern English: from a Norman personal name, Ridel. Reaney explains this as a nickname from Old French ridel ‘small hill’ (a diminutive of ride ‘fold’, of Germanic origin), but a more probable source is a Germanic personal name derived from the element rīd ‘ride’.
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 4,728
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Kentucky
- has the most people named Riddell per capita
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