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ripley Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from any of various places in different parts of England, named in Old English with ripel ‘strip of land’ + leah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’.

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

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

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Distribution of ripley Families in the US in 1920
Number of ripley families
 120-237
 41-119		 1-40
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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