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Rye

in Iowa

There are 42 people with the last name "Rye" in Iowa.

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Ranking in Iowa

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Rye 9,768
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  1. is 9,764th most common Rekemeyer
  2. is 9,765th most common Riedell
  3. is 9,766th most common Ripple
  4. is 9,767th most common Ronnfeldt
  5. is 9,768th most common Rye
  6. is 9,769th most common Sauerbrei
  7. is 9,770th most common Schaff
  8. is 9,771st most common Schiernbeck
  9. is 9,772nd most common Schlosser

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Rye

Michael, Amy, Andrew, Claudia, Norman, Richard, William, Allan, Amanda, Carl

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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