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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Riabhach, which MacLysaght describes as an adjectival surname (meaning ‘gray’ or ‘brindled’) that ‘‘took the place of an hereditary one’’.
  • Possibly an altered spelling of German Rech.

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