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Last name: RIDDLE

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All you have to know about the last name RIDDLE

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RIDDLE : This last name is indexed 92,621 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

RIDDLE : English:: 1: habitational name probably chiefly from Ryedale a river valley in North Yorkshire. The placename derives from the river name Rye (of uncertain etymology) + Old Norse dalr ‘valley’. There are however other places called Rydale (in Westmorland for example) which could have given rise to hereditary surnames.2: of Norman origin from an Old French personal name Ridel perhaps a pet form of ancient Germanic names such as Ridbald and Ridhari(us).

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