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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Swiss German and German : from a pet form of the medieval personal name Richelin.
  • Jewish (from Belarus; Raykhlin) : from the Yiddish female personal name Raykhle, a pet form of Raykhe, which in turn is derived from Yiddish raykh ‘rich’, + the eastern Slavic possessive suffix -in.

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