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Reiber Name Meaning and History

  1. German: occupational name for an assistant in a bathhouse or a barber’s shop, from an agent derivative of Middle High German riben ‘to rub’.
  2. Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname from Yiddish rayber ‘great eater’, ‘someone who rubs’ (see 1).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name History and Origin for  Reiber

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Reiber
  1. German: occupational name for an assistant in a bathhouse or a barber’s shop, from an agent derivative of Middle High German riben ‘to rub’.
  2. Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname from Yiddish rayber ‘great eater’, ‘someone who rubs’ (see 1).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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