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The reich Surname

reich Name Meaning and History

  1. German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for a wealthy or powerful man, from Middle High German rich ‘of noble descent’, ‘powerful’, ‘rich’, German reich ‘rich’.
  2. German: from a short form of a personal name containing the Old High German element rihhi ‘power’, ‘might’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of reich Families in the US in 1920
Number of reich families
 197-392
 66-196		 1-65
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 172 - Messages: 434
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Reich Family/Danville, PA Joe R. Smith 7
Reichs from Miskolc and Igló LajosReich 0
Hans Reich b. 1610 in Germany to present Debbie Camberg 14
Reich family DianeStewart57 3
finding my biological father kathymc1961 2
Reich's In Lancaster Co. PA Janice Reich 4
Henry Reich, 1776 Frederick Co., MD sksmith_nl 5
father's family kathyreich61 2
REICH Owen Jr _1919-1921.JPG t42FairlawnOKC 1
Grand Father - George Washington (Wallace) Reich Carmel (Byrd) Sills 2
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