Etymology

Reidy

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Today it means: A surname from Irish. Full definition →

Irish Ó Riada
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The story

  1. Irish · derived fromÓ Riada“descendant of Riada”
  2. English todayReidy

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Riada (“descendant of Riada”), a personal name perhaps meaning "drover".

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.