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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : metonymic occupational name from Slavic ryba ‘fish’.
  • German : from a short form of a personal name composed of the elements rīc ‘power(ful)’ + bod ‘messenger’.
  • German : metonymic occupational name for a turnip grower, from Middle High German rüebe ‘turnip’, ‘beet’.

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