Ridgeway Family History
Ridgeway Name Meaning
English: from Middle English rig(g)ewei ‘ridgeway’ (Old English hrycgweg). The surname may be topographic signifying someone who lived beside a ridgeway or habitational signifying someone who lived at one of a number of places so named for example Ridgeway (Cheshire Derbyshire Dorset Somerset Staffordshire) and Rudgeway (Gloucestershire).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022