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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name for someone from Ripp(o)lingen in the Rhineland.
  • German : derivative of Riepling, a patronymic from a pet form of the Germanic personal name Riepl, formed with rīc ‘power(ful)’ + -ing.

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