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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (from Belarus) : metronymic from the Yiddish female personal name Rivle, a pet form of Rivke (Yiddish form of Hebrew Rivqah; see Rebecca), with the addition of the Slavic possessive suffix -in.

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