Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : variant of Reisig.
  • German : nickname for an acquisitive person, from Middle High German reizec ‘greedy’, ‘covetous’.
  • German : topographic name from Middle High German rīsach ‘undergrowth’, ‘brushwood’. Compare Reis 1.

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