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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from a short form of the Germanic personal name Ribbert, Rippert (a compound of rīc ‘power(ful)’ + berht ‘bright’).
  • German : habitational name from any of several places so named in northern Germany.

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