Rider Surname
Approximately 30,825 people bear this surname
Rider Surname Definition:
This surname is derived from an occupation. 'the rider,' i.e. trooper; v. Ritter or Rutter.
Roger le Ridere, Cambridgeshire, 1273. Hundred Rolls.
Stephen le Ridere, Huntingdonshire, ibid.
Adam le Rydere, Huntingdonshire, ibid.
Read More About This SurnameRider Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 21,742 | 1:16,671 | 2,108 |
| England | 3,120 | 1:17,858 | 2,562 |
| Egypt | 1,220 | 1:75,357 | 6,848 |
| Canada | 857 | 1:42,994 | 5,332 |
| Australia | 588 | 1:45,911 | 5,749 |
| Bangladesh | 541 | 1:294,560 | 8,696 |
| Russia | 489 | 1:294,730 | 30,308 |
| Spain | 461 | 1:101,414 | 8,253 |
| India | 345 | 1:2,223,378 | 73,777 |
| Saudi Arabia | 278 | 1:110,992 | 14,774 |
| Morocco | 136 | 1:253,501 | 42,794 |
| New Zealand | 119 | 1:38,053 | 6,460 |
| South Africa | 102 | 1:531,154 | 42,340 |
| Scotland | 63 | 1:84,981 | 6,133 |
| Kazakhstan | 44 | 1:401,875 | 31,337 |
| Germany | 42 | 1:1,916,797 | 106,618 |
| Malaysia | 42 | 1:702,243 | 33,141 |
| Belarus | 39 | 1:243,617 | 29,148 |
| Wales | 37 | 1:83,636 | 6,963 |
| Greece | 31 | 1:357,413 | 49,581 |
| Indonesia | 27 | 1:4,898,118 | 234,077 |
| Latvia | 26 | 1:78,848 | 11,595 |
| Lithuania | 25 | 1:121,384 | 14,277 |
| France | 21 | 1:3,162,987 | 209,042 |
| Philippines | 21 | 1:4,820,868 | 168,058 |
| Singapore | 21 | 1:262,272 | 11,611 |
| Netherlands | 20 | 1:844,359 | 60,801 |
| Thailand | 20 | 1:3,531,917 | 315,217 |
| Jamaica | 18 | 1:159,442 | 5,298 |
| Peru | 15 | 1:2,118,942 | 25,723 |
| Chile | 14 | 1:1,258,320 | 22,898 |
| Pakistan | 14 | 1:12,760,278 | 55,960 |
| China | 13 | 1:105,178,582 | 5,529 |
| Sweden | 13 | 1:757,443 | 56,422 |
| Brazil | 12 | 1:17,839,528 | 311,080 |
| Italy | 12 | 1:5,096,391 | 108,968 |
| Argentina | 11 | 1:3,885,765 | 145,016 |
| Croatia | 11 | 1:384,419 | 33,360 |
| Israel | 11 | 1:777,967 | 50,646 |
| Japan | 10 | 1:12,784,429 | 45,945 |
| Mexico | 10 | 1:12,412,620 | 43,480 |
| Iran | 9 | 1:8,531,392 | 160,212 |
| Myanmar | 9 | 1:5,770,887 | 975 |
| Qatar | 9 | 1:262,000 | 30,726 |
| Uzbekistan | 9 | 1:3,436,571 | 32,268 |
| Poland | 8 | 1:4,751,094 | 138,864 |
| United Arab Emirates | 8 | 1:1,145,284 | 40,289 |
| Zimbabwe | 8 | 1:1,929,780 | 92,581 |
| Taiwan | 6 | 1:3,907,458 | 23,065 |
| Georgia | 4 | 1:936,386 | 24,100 |
| Hong Kong | 4 | 1:1,833,871 | 6,220 |
| Mongolia | 4 | 1:706,322 | 11,365 |
| Puerto Rico | 4 | 1:887,535 | 4,548 |
| Tunisia | 4 | 1:152,656 | 17,743 |
| Turkmenistan | 4 | 1:1,372,278 | 6,164 |
| Afghanistan | 3 | 1:10,717,728 | 35,605 |
| Armenia | 3 | 1:976,727 | 13,552 |
| Jordan | 3 | 1:2,947,479 | 21,051 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 3 | 1:454,658 | 14,297 |
| Turkey | 3 | 1:25,940,474 | 162,557 |
| Ukraine | 3 | 1:15,174,232 | 372,501 |
| Northern Ireland | 2 | 1:922,518 | 18,701 |
| Belgium | 2 | 1:5,748,322 | 130,559 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
| Colombia | 2 | 1:23,887,036 | 32,612 |
| Czechia | 2 | 1:5,316,734 | 169,646 |
| Ecuador | 2 | 1:7,952,923 | 34,269 |
| Kenya | 2 | 1:23,089,950 | 83,168 |
| Moldova | 2 | 1:1,780,684 | 55,103 |
| Nigeria | 2 | 1:88,571,379 | 625,098 |
| Serbia | 2 | 1:3,572,474 | 32,645 |
| South Korea | 2 | 1:25,620,128 | 4,175 |
| Switzerland | 2 | 1:4,106,458 | 122,336 |
| Venezuela | 2 | 1:15,102,038 | 69,873 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| American Samoa | 1 | 1:55,758 | 3,072 |
| Andorra | 1 | 1:83,838 | 2,381 |
| Angola | 1 | 1:26,989,214 | 11,853 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Azerbaijan | 1 | 1:9,649,122 | 47,873 |
| Bahamas | 1 | 1:391,751 | 2,737 |
| Bahrain | 1 | 1:1,348,608 | 10,432 |
| Bermuda | 1 | 1:65,279 | 3,010 |
| Bolivia | 1 | 1:10,616,434 | 17,077 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1 | 1:3,536,402 | 19,532 |
| Cuba | 1 | 1:11,522,716 | 17,380 |
| Cyprus | 1 | 1:884,876 | 13,055 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Estonia | 1 | 1:1,321,804 | 40,178 |
| Fiji | 1 | 1:894,391 | 4,568 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Guatemala | 1 | 1:16,082,668 | 12,169 |
| Guernsey | 1 | 1:64,439 | 2,137 |
| Haiti | 1 | 1:10,683,907 | 24,607 |
| Honduras | 1 | 1:8,816,442 | 9,272 |
| Hungary | 1 | 1:9,816,277 | 73,288 |
| Iceland | 1 | 1:380,090 | 11,096 |
| Iraq | 1 | 1:35,021,654 | 31,813 |
| Isle of Man | 1 | 1:85,822 | 4,091 |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1:3,800,694 | 27,187 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 1 | 1:5,972,654 | 99,197 |
| Libya | 1 | 1:6,243,974 | 6,186 |
| Liechtenstein | 1 | 1:38,378 | 1,726 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1:580,542 | 15,155 |
| North Macedonia | 1 | 1:2,101,472 | 31,546 |
| Maldives | 1 | 1:404,172 | 7,269 |
| Mauritius | 1 | 1:1,293,417 | 16,552 |
| Namibia | 1 | 1:2,409,401 | 19,676 |
| Nepal | 1 | 1:28,480,956 | 22,413 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Oman | 1 | 1:3,687,971 | 14,390 |
| Portugal | 1 | 1:10,418,241 | 25,048 |
| Romania | 1 | 1:20,077,870 | 89,414 |
| Slovenia | 1 | 1:2,487,675 | 31,128 |
| Sri Lanka | 1 | 1:20,808,560 | 18,521 |
| Suriname | 1 | 1:552,616 | 9,664 |
| Syria | 1 | 1:19,301,022 | 22,457 |
| Tajikistan | 1 | 1:8,386,692 | 12,859 |
| Transnistria | 1 | 1:474,699 | 17,893 |
| Uganda | 1 | 1:39,039,279 | 258,887 |
| Vietnam | 1 | 1:92,646,054 | 8,382 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland | 13 | 1:340,759 | 12,983 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 2,885 | 1:8,449 | 1,283 |
| Wales | 24 | 1:65,351 | 3,160 |
| Scotland | 5 | 1:748,643 | 18,576 |
| Jersey | 1 | 1:51,882 | 3,898 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 6,670 | 1:7,529 | 958 |
The alternate forms: Ríder (3) & Rîdêr (1) are calculated separately.
Rider (7,853) may also be a first name.
Rider Surname Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
This surname is derived from an occupation. 'the rider,' i.e. trooper; v. Ritter or Rutter.
Roger le Ridere, Cambridgeshire, 1273. Hundred Rolls.
Stephen le Ridere, Huntingdonshire, ibid.
Adam le Rydere, Huntingdonshire, ibid.
John le Ridere, Close Rolls, 9 Edward II.
Nicholas le Ridere, Somerset, 1 Edward III: Kirby's Quest.
John le Rider, 2 Edward III: Freemen of York.
Ricardus Rydere, textor, 1379: Poll Tax of Yorkshire.
1789. Married — William Minchin and Mary Rider: St. George, Hanover Square.
— — Robert Ryder and Sarah Gore: ibid.
(English) 1 Horseman, Trooper; in late A.-Saxon, Norman Knight.
2 Mounted Keeper or Steward; Ranger [Middle English ridere, rydere; Old English rídere] I geve thee eightene pence a day, And my bowe shalt thou bere; and over all the north countre I make thee chyfe rydere.—‘Adam Bell’; Percy’s Reliques.
3 (late) (Mounted) Commercial Traveller.
(English) The rider or trooper; a mounted guardian of a forest.
A forest-officer, who, having a large district to supervise, was mounted, in contradistinction to the walker. See Walker. He was sometimes called a "ridingforester," and it was his duty to lead the King in his hunting. Nelson's Laws of Game. Rider is also local. In the Siege of Carlaverock, we are told-"William de Ridre was there, who in a blue banner bore crescents of gold." He is elsewhere called Ryther, and he probably took his name from the place so called in Yorkshire. Ryder, Lord Harrowby, claims from that source, and bears the same arms with a slight addition. H.R. Le Ridere.
A forest officer, being mounted, and having the supervision of a large district. In the ballad of William of Cloudesly, the king, rewarding the dexterity of the archer who shot the apple from his child's head, says:
"I give thee eightene pence a day,
And my bowe thou shalt here;
And over all the north countre I make thee chyfe rydere."
Rider: The Barons maintained German mercenaries as horsemen. These were the Reiter, or, as the English called them, Reuters. They soon, however, changed Reuter into Rider and Ryder. An old song begins: “Rutterkyn is come into oure towne In a cloke withoute cote or gowne, Save a ragged hood to cover his crowne Like a rutter hoyda.”
All our Ryders may with confidence look back to a German or Brabant origin, when the ancestor came over “without cote or gowne” to take the King’s or some Earl’s or Baron’s money as a mercenary, but saw a pretty English wench, married, and settled down among his wife’s people.
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Rider Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Rider Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Rider (Arabic: دراج, Hindi: रिडेरा, Russian: Ридер) is found most frequently in The United States. It can also occur as: Ríder or Rîdêr. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Rider? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 17,916th most frequently used surname on a worldwide basis, held by around 1 in 236,417 people. The surname Rider occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 73 percent of Rider live; 73 percent live in North America and 73 percent live in Anglo-North America. Rider is also the 71,993rd most commonly held first name throughout the world, held by 7,853 people.
The surname is most widely held in The United States, where it is held by 21,742 people, or 1 in 16,671. In The United States it is primarily concentrated in: California, where 8 percent live, Texas, where 7 percent live and Pennsylvania, where 7 percent live. Not including The United States this last name exists in 123 countries. It is also found in England, where 10 percent live and Egypt, where 4 percent live.
Rider Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Rider has changed through the years. In The United States the share of the population with the surname expanded 326 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it expanded 108 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Scotland it expanded 1,260 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Wales it expanded 154 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Ireland it declined 92 percent between 1901 and 2014.
Rider Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those bearing the last name is predominantly Catholic (85%) in Ireland, Orthodox (91%) in Russia and Orthodox (90%) in Ukraine.
In The United States those holding the Rider last name are 18.79% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than The US average, with 65.56% registered to vote for the party.
The amount Rider earn in different countries varies greatly. In Peru they earn 112.43% more than the national average, earning S/. 41,180 per year; in South Africa they earn 161.46% more than the national average, earning R 621,336 per year; in United States they earn 1.82% less than the national average, earning $42,362 USD per year and in Canada they earn 9.39% more than the national average, earning $54,346 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Rider Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Rider in the Hindi language | ||
| रिडेरा | ridera | - |
| Rider in the Russian language | ||
| Ридер | rider | - |
| Rider in the Arabic language | ||
| دراج | draj | - |
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