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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name for someone from Reusch or Reisch, both in Bavaria.
  • German : a nickname from Sorbian ryšar ‘knight’, ‘hero’.
  • German : from a short form of a Germanic personal name formed with (h)rōd ‘fame’, ‘victory’.

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