The Ridenour surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 8,130 people carried this name — #4,373 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 36,200 people counted. About the same as in 2000 (8,159).

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In the first U.S. census, 1790

33 families named Ridenour, or a close spelling, were counted in 1790.

Each family is counted by its head. About 218 people lived in those households, 6.7 to a family on average. The table counts it together with 10 other spellings. The table lists white heads of families only, in the twelve states whose 1790 records survive; Virginia’s figures come from state lists of 1782–1785.

Families, by state

Maryland 16
Virginia 8
Pennsylvania 5
New York 3
North Carolina 1

U.S. Census Bureau, «A Century of Population Growth from the First Census of the United States to the Twelfth, 1790–1900» (Washington, 1909), table 111, p. 259 — public domain · names carried by at least 100 white persons in 1790.

In print

Ridenour in American newspapers,
1897–1928.

Newspaper page from The Corvallis Times carrying the name Ridenour
The Corvallis Times 1905-04-05
Newspaper page from Kansas City Journal carrying the name Ridenour
Kansas City Journal 1897-11-07
Newspaper page from Plentywood Herald carrying the name Ridenour
Plentywood Herald 1928-07-26

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 15,704 pages in all carry the name.

Who carried it

People named Ridenour,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Louis Ridenour
    Louis Ridenour 1911–1959 · physicist
  • Amy Ridenour
    Amy Ridenour 1959–2017 · activist
  • Mildred Daum Ridenour 1900–1997 · secondary school teacher

Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Ridenour,
in the records of the United States.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States389 records

389 records of the Ridenour name in the United States
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 272
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 85
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 12
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 10
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 7
  • U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 2
  • U.S. service members who died in the Korean War 1
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Clarence E. Ridenour

    Born 1917 in Illinois. Enlisted 1943 at Peoria; sales clerk from Madison County. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 2001, buried at Edwardsville Calvary Cemetery, Illinois.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. Names engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
    Example: U.S. war memorial
    War record Edwin Michael Ridenour

    Born 1948; from Yuma, Arizona. U.S. Marine Corps, rifleman; killed in action 1968 in Quang Tri, South Vietnam.

    U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain)
  3. A U.S. Army record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864
    Example: U.S. burial record, 1864
    Burial record Clifford B. Ridenour

    U.S. Air Force veteran of the Vietnam War. Born 1952, died 2000; buried at Eskridge Cemetery District #5, Kansas.

    U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)

Showing 3 of 389 records for Ridenour in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); Record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864, U.S. National Archives (public domain).

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