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The reiss Surname

reiss Name Meaning and History

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

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Distribution of reiss Families in the US in 1920
Number of reiss families
 193-384
 65-192
 1-64
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