Riordan - Meaning of Riordan

What does Riordan mean?

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[ 2 syll. rior-dan, ri-ord-an ] The baby boy name Riordan is pronounced as RIHRDAHN †. Riordan is an Irish name of Irish Gaelic origin. The meaning of the name is royal poet.

Reardan, Reardin, Reardon, Riordon, and Rordan (Irish) are variant transcriptions of Riordan.

Other forms of Riordan include the familiar form Rory (English), and the variant spellings Rearden (English) and Riorden (English).

See also the related category irish.

Riordan is rare as a baby boy name. It is not listed in the top 1000. Within the family of boy names directly linked to Riordan, Rory was the most frequently used in 2018.

Baby names that sound like Riordan include Reardan, Rearden, Reardon, Riordon, Radan, Raden, Raedan, Raeden, Raedon, Raidon, Rawdan, Rawden, Rawdon, Rawdun, Rayden, Raydon, Raydun, Rayedon, Reiden, and Ridwan.

† English pronunciation for Riordan: R as in "race (R.EY.S)" ; IH as in "it (IH.T)" ; D as in "day (D.EY)" ; AH as in "mud (M.AH.D)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)"