# Rider (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/rider/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname originating as an occupation. More often spelled Ryder.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | occupational, named after the work an ancestor did |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 16,352 |
| US rank (2010) | 2,227 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 18,881 people |
| Change since 2000 | +1.9% (16,048 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As an English surname, from the noun rider. * Also as an English surname, from Old English rēodan (“to clear out”), from Proto-West Germanic *reudan. Compare Reeder. * Also as an English surname, from dialectal rithe (“small stream”). * As an Irish surname, calque from Irish ó marcaigh (“descendant of the (horse)rider”). This is also found directly in Markey. * As a German surname, Americanized from Reiter.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Rider in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 89% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 3.8% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.2% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.7% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 1.9% |
| Two or more races | 2.0% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Rider in the United States.

## People named Rider

- Seth Rider, American triathlete
- Stephen Rider, American film and television actor (born 1979)

## Similar surnames

Ritter, Rader, Ryder, Rudder, Reider, Rieder, Ruder, Ridder, Roder, Reder, Riter, Reeder.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.