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Updated June 9, 2019

Girl name origins & meanings

  • Latin : Laughing one

Girl name variations

How Popular Is The Name Risë

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : topographic name from Old English hrīs ‘brushwood’, or a habitational name from Rise in East Yorkshire, named with this word.
  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of over twenty farmsteads named Rise, from Old Norse hrís ‘brushwood’. The name also occurs in Sweden and Denmark.

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