Family name origins & meanings
- German : habitational name for someone from any of several places called Reising or Reisingen in Bavaria.
- German : occupational name for a soldier, from Middle High German reisinc ‘warrior’, literally ‘traveler’.
- German : in the south a topographic name, from Middle High German rīs ‘branch’, ‘shrubbery’, denoting someone who lived near a thicket or underbrush.