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’.