# Riding (surname)

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

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,217 |
| US rank (2010) | 21,470 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 253,694 people |
| Change since 2000 | +12% (1,083 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Riding 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) | 90% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 5.6% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.4% |
| Two or more races | 0.8% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Riding in the United States.

## People named Riding

- Laura Riding, American poet, critic, novelist, essayist and short story writer (1901-1991)

## Similar surnames

Redding, Reading, Reding, Ridings, Ridinger, Rittenhouse, Rademacher, Rudnick, Redinger, Reddington, Redington, Radomski.

## 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.