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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : habitational name from any of various minor places, particularly in Baden-Württemberg and Hesse, so named from Old High German rīhhi ‘rich’, ‘powerful’ (i.e. strongly flowing) + bah ‘stream’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from German reich ‘rich’ + Bach ‘stream’ (see 1).

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