Group info: | Meaning/translation: | rye field |
Language of origin: | Old English |
Info about origin, male: | from a family name deriving from a place name meaning rye field |
Words: | ryge = the rye (a kind of grain) Old English |
| leah = the wood (in the sense of forest), the clearing (open place within a wood), the meadow Old English |
Topics: | Family name, Geographic name |
Variants' top ranks: | 4:Riley Scotland 2012, 22:Riley USA 2016, 94:Rylee Canada/BC 2020, 138:Ryleigh USA 2019, 194:Ryley Scotland 2011, 316:Rylie USA 2008, 620:Reilly USA 1997, 723:Rylee USA 2010, 806:Reilly USA 1997, 879:Raylee USA 2017 |
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