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The richey Surname

richey Name Meaning and History

  1. German: from a short form of a Germanic personal name based on ric ‘power(ful)’ (see Reich), or from the female personal name Rikheit, from ric + suffix -heit ‘way of being’.
  2. Possibly an Americanized spelling of German Reiche or Ritsche (see Ritchey 2).
  3. English and northern Irish: variant spelling of Ritchie.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The richey name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the richey family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of richey Families in the US in 1920
Number of richey families
 136-270
 46-135		 1-45
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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