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stride Name Meaning and History

English: from Middle English stride ‘(long) pace’ (from stride(n) ‘to walk with long steps’), presumably a nickname for someone with long legs or whose gait had a purposeful air, although Reaney and Wilson suggest it may also have been a topographic name for someone who lived by a crossing point over a stream, presumably no wider than a stride. They cite as an example a place known as The Strid, in North Yorkshire.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of stride Families in the US in 1920
Number of stride families
 7-12
 3-6
 1-2
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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