Riddle Name Origin. Riddle means descendant of little rad a pet form of names beginning with rad counsel. The linguistic origin of the name is Scandinavain the original name Ryedlae means valley of the rye When the Scottish got a hold of the name the spelling adapted to.
This most interesting surname is of Anglo-Saxon origin and is a variant of Ridler which derives ultimately from the Olde English hriddel a sieve and the Middle English ridelen to sift. Riddle n2 coarse sieve mid-14c alteration of late Old English hriddel a dissimilation of hridder from Proto-Germanic hrida- source also of German Reiter from PIE root krei- to sieve source also of Latin cribrum sieve riddle Greek krinein to separate distinguish decide. The Criddle family name was found in the USA the UK Canada and Scotland between 1840 and 1920.
The average age of a Riddle family member is 707 years old according to our database of 13054 people with the last name Riddle that have a birth and death date listed.
Five letters--that is the length of my name. Grindle Hindle Weddle Idle Ruddle Ridler Windle Ridgley. In 1840 there were 4 Riddles families living in Pennsylvania. Ontario had the highest population of Riddle families in 1911.
