as a Last Name
- 8,635
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Ridgeway
Meaning & Origins
English: from Middle English riggewey, hence a topographic name for someone who lived by such a route or a habitational name from any of various places so named, for example in Cheshire, Derbyshire, Dorset, and Staffordshire.
| 3,565th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 8,635
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- South Carolina
- has the most people named Ridgeway per capita
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