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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Swiss and South German : variant of Risinger.
  • perhaps an Americanized spelling of German Reising, or from an unexplained stem riese.
  • The last governor of New Sweden Colony (1638–55), on the Delaware River, was a man by the name of Johan Rising.

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