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Rye

in California

There are 273 people with the last name "Rye" in California.

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Ranking in California

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Rye 8,784
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  1. is 8,780th most common Lussier
  2. is 8,781st most common Mathers
  3. is 8,782nd most common Munos
  4. is 8,783rd most common Petro
  5. is 8,784th most common Rye
  6. is 8,785th most common Schade
  7. is 8,786th most common Sparkman
  8. is 8,787th most common Wetmore
  9. is 8,788th most common Wimer

Similar Names and Nicknames

Roe, Rae, Rue, Ryu, Ree, Rhe, Rie, Ry, Rwe, Rya

Most Common First Names for Rye

Robert, James, David, Keith, Gerald, Lisa, William, Dorothy

Meaning & History

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Rye

English: topographic name for someone who lived on an island or patch of firm ground surrounded by fens, from a misdivision of the Middle English phrase atter ye ‘at the island’ (from Old English ēg, īeg ‘island’).

English: topographic name for someone who lived near a river or stream, from a misdivision of the Middle English phrase atter eye ‘at the river’ (from Old English ēa ‘river’).

English: topographic name for someone living at a place where rye (Old English ryge) was grown, or perhaps a metonymic occupational name for someone who grew or sold it.

Norwegian: habitational name from a farmstead so named, most of them from Old Norse rjóðr ‘clearing in a forest’, but others from ry ‘dry place with stones’.

Danish: habitational name from a place called Rye.

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