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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Lancashire) : occupational name for a poet, minstrel, or balladeer, from an agent derivative of Middle English rime(n) ‘to compose or recite verses’ (Old French rimer).
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Riemer.

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