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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Riabhaigh ‘descendant of Riabhach’, a byname meaning ‘brindled’, ‘grizzled’.
  • Possibly an altered spelling of German Riewe.

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