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The ridenour Surname

ridenour Name Meaning and History

  1. Americanized spelling of German Rittenauer or Rettenauer, a topographic name for someone living by a swampy water meadow (from Retten ‘swamp’ + Au ‘water meadow’ + -er suffix denoting an inhabitant), or a habitational name from a place named with these elements.
  2. Americanized spelling of South German Rütt(e)nauer, perhaps a topographic name from Middle High German riute ‘clearing’ + ouwe ‘wet field’, ‘water meadow’.
  3. variant of Ridenhour.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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ridenour Family Facts

Distribution of ridenour Families in the US in 1920
Number of ridenour families
 112-221
 38-111		 1-37
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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