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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (of Slavic origin) : habitational name from a place near Stolpe in Pomerania called Reitz.
  • German : from a late medieval short pet form of the personal name Richard or Heinrich (see Henry).
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from the Yiddish female personal name Raytse, of Germanic origin.

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