Rief Family History
Rief Name Meaning
German: from a variant of the personal name Rüef, Ruoff, reduced forms of Rudolf, or from a short form of the Germanic personal name Ricfrid, composed of ric ‘power(ful)’, ‘rich’ + frid ‘peace’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Rief Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Rief families
 10 - 18  4 - 9 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Rief families
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3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Rief census records
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Rief Family Origin
Rief Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Rief
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Rief Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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Rief Civil War Service Records
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