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reader Name Meaning and History

  1. English: occupational name for someone who thatched cottages with reeds, from an agent derivative of Middle English red(en) ‘to cover with reeds’.
  2. Americanized spelling of German Rieder.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of reader Families in the US in 1920
Number of reader families
 40-77
 14-39
 1-13
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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