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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Reismann) : occupational name for a woodcutter, Middle High German rīsman. Compare Reiser. This name is also found in Slovenia.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : elaborated variant of Reis 4.

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