Riordan Family History
- Riordan Name Meaning
- Irish: reduced form of O’Riordan, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Ríoghbhárdáin ‘descendant of Rióghbhárdán’, a byname composed of the elements ríogh- ‘royal’ + a diminutive of bárd ‘bard’, ‘poet’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 306,726 Historical Documents with Riordan on Ancestry
- 152,765 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 63,200 Census and Voter Lists
- 12,913 Military Records
- 18,723 Immigration Records
- 59,125 Member Trees
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Number of Riordan families
 51 - 100  18 - 50 |
 1 - 17  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Riordan families
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6 - 9 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Riordan census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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