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’.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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