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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from any of several places in England named from Old English ryge ‘rye’ + hyll ‘hill’, e.g. Ryal and Ryle in Northumbria, Ryhill in West Yorkshire, or Ryehill in East Yorkshire. See also Ryle.

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