Rye

in Wisconsin

There are 81 people with the last name "Rye" in Wisconsin.

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Ranking in Wisconsin

NameRank
Rye 9,141
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  1. is 9,137th most common Roehrborn
  2. is 9,138th most common Rothwell
  3. is 9,139th most common Ruhl
  4. is 9,140th most common Ryba
  5. is 9,141st most common Rye
  6. is 9,142nd most common Schoenfeldt
  7. is 9,143rd most common Schrubbe
  8. is 9,144th most common Senft
  9. is 9,145th most common Shear

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Rye

Jennifer, Paul, David, Jeffery, John, Patricia, Ralph, Robert, Samuel, Susan



Meaning & History

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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