Family name origins & meanings
- Origin uncertain. Possibilities include : Reduced and altered form, under French influence, of Polish Rzepiński (see Repinski).
- Origin uncertain. Possibilities include : altered spelling of German Reppin, a habitational name from a place named Reppin (of Slavic origin) in eastern Germany.
- Origin uncertain. Possibilities include : altered spelling, under French influence, of Russian Repin or Slovenian Repina, both from nicknames based on the Slavic word repa ‘turnip’.