Family name origins & meanings
- Swiss German : topographic name for someone who lived near a thicket or underbrush, from an agent noun based on Middle High German rīs ‘branch’, ‘shrubbery’.
- Possibly an Americanized spelling of German Reiser.
Updated: June 9, 2019
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