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Rye

in Kentucky

There are 64 people with the last name "Rye" in Kentucky.

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Ranking in Kentucky

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Rye 5,671
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  1. is 5,667th most common Poling
  2. is 5,668th most common Polsgrove
  3. is 5,669th most common Reitz
  4. is 5,670th most common Reneau
  5. is 5,671st most common Rye
  6. is 5,672nd most common Salter
  7. is 5,673rd most common Scheper
  8. is 5,674th most common Schlueter
  9. is 5,675th most common Schoenbachler

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Rye

David, Linda, Marcella, William, Diane, Gary, Kathleen, Pamela, Reba, Ronald

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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