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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Reichmann) and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname for a powerful or wealthy man, from Middle High German rīch, German reich ‘noble’, ‘powerful’, ‘rich’ + man, modern German Mann ‘man’.

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