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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a maker of leather reins and similar articles, Middle High German riemære, German Riemer, Yiddish rimer. Compare Riemenschneider.
  • Altered spelling of German Reimer.

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