In Croatia, Rider families are Croats (from Orahovica area ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Orahovica area and in Orahovica area.
Prevalence
About 20 people with faimily name Rider live in Croatia today, in 9 households. There were 30 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 10 percent. They are located and threee other Croatian places, mostly in Kutjevo (<10) and Pausinci (<10) in Orahovica area, Osijek (<5), Rijeka (<5), and in Daruvar (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.