Frequency: (279)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Variant spelling of English Reditt, a topographic name for someone who lived by a reed-bed, from Middle English redette ‘reed-bed’, a derivative of rede ‘reed’ (Old English hrēod).
GIVEN NAMES: French 5%. Irby (2), Andre.
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