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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Röhrig) : topographic name from Middle High German rōrach, rœrach ‘reed bed’, or a habitational name from any of four places named with this word.
  • German (Röhrig) : from a Germanic personal name, Hrodric, from hrōd ‘renown’, ‘victory’.

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