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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : occupational name for someone who made or sold baskets, or else carried wares about in a basket, from an agent derivative of Middle English (h)rip ‘basket’ (Old Norse hrip).
  • German : variant of Ripp.

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