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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name for someone from any of several places called Reising or Reisingen in Bavaria.
  • German : occupational name for a soldier, from Middle High German reisinc ‘warrior’, literally ‘traveler’.
  • German : in the south a topographic name, from Middle High German rīs ‘branch’, ‘shrubbery’, denoting someone who lived near a thicket or underbrush.

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