Meaning and Origin of: Ripley

Girl name origins & meanings

  • English : From the shouter's meadow

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Old English : Dweller in the noisy meadow

Boy name variations

Ripleigh
Rypley
Rip

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from any of various places in different parts of England, named in Old English with ripel ‘strip of land’ + lēah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’.
  • William Ripley (d. 1656) came from Wymondham, Norfolk, England, to Hingham, MA, in 1638.

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