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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scandinavian : nickname from ris ‘twigs’, ‘scrub’, or a habitational name from any of several places so named in Denmark.
  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of five farmsteads named Ris, from Old Norse hrís ‘brushwood’.

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