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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : from a reduced form of a Germanic personal name composed of ragin ‘counsel’ + fridu ‘peace’.
  • German : metonymic occupational name for a carrier or peddler, from Middle High German ref(f) ‘pannier’, ‘basket’.
  • German : from a reduced form of a Germanic personal name composed of the elements rīc ‘power(ful)’ + fridu ‘peace’.

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