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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : from the Yiddish female personal name Rive a back-formation from Rivke (see Rifkin).
  • French : topographic name for someone who lived on the bank of a river or the shore of a lake, Old French rive (Latin ripa).

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