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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from a pet form of any of several Germanic personal names formed with the Germanic element rīc ‘power’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from the Yiddish female personal name Raykhl, a pet form of Raykhe, which in turn is derived from Yiddish raykh ‘rich’.

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