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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : variant of Rech.
  • nickname for someone who was timid or fleet of foot, from Middle High German rēch ‘roe deer’. Compare Rech.
  • Jewish (western Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from German Reh ‘roe deer’ (see 2).

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