Polish, Czech, Slovak, and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): metonymic
occupational name, nickname, or an ornamental name from the common
Slavic word ryba ‘fish’. As an occupational name it may have
denoted a fisherman or a seller of fish. As a nickname it may have
been bestowed on account of some fancied physical resemblance to a
fish.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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