Riddley: Last Name Origin and Family Crest

Arms linked to Ridley and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

What Riddley means

The spelling Riddley grew out of Ridley, an English surname with a long paper trail. Its meaning, shared with Ridley, is “Cleared woodland or reed clearing”.

The extra “d” in Riddley is a spelling habit rather than a different name. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. Riddley ranked 64,388 in the 2010 US Census, with 309 people answering to the name. Similar-sounding surnames on Herald Lab: Riddle and Riedle.

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