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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Perhaps an altered spelling of German Rissberg, a habitational name from a place so named near Helmstedt, Lower Saxony, or from Risiberg in Württemberg.
  • Scandinavian : habitational name from a farmstead or any of several other places named with ris ‘brushwood’ + berg ‘hill’, ‘mountain’.

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