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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Slovak (Rybár), Serbian, Croatian, and Slovenian : occupational name for a fisherman or fish seller, from an agent noun derivative of riba ‘fish’. As a Slovenian surname, Ribar is an obsolete variant of Ribič, which is more frequent.
  • Czech (Ribář) : variant of Rybář ‘fisherman’, ‘fish seller’ (see Ryba).

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