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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : occupational name for a mounted soldier or knight, from Middle Low German rider, Middle High German rīter ‘rider’.
  • German : variant of Reuter 1.
  • German : habitational name for someone from any of various places in Germany and Austria called Reit or Reith (see Reith).

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