Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : (Swiss): Alemannic form of Reiser.
  • German : habitational name for someone from Ries near Passau.
  • German : Alemannic variant of Rüs(s)er, a variant of Reusser 1.
  • German : altered spelling of Riesser, a habitational name for someone from Ries(s), a region of Bavaria.

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