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Last name origins & meanings:

  1. German: variant of Reis 1.
  2. German: from any of several Germanic personal names composed with rīc ‘power(ful)’.
  3. Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Reis.
  4. German: from a French Huguenot name Ris, rendered as Reis, Reiss.