as a Last Name
- 11,947
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Ridley
Meaning & Origins
English: habitational name from any of various places in England so named, especially the one in Northumberland, which, like that in Cheshire, is derived from Old English geryd ‘channel’ + lēah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’. Those in Essex and Kent appear in Domesday Book as Retleia and Redlege respectively, and get their names from Old English hrēod ‘reed’ + lēah.
| 3,038th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 11,947
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Maine
- has the most people named Ridley per capita
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