as a Last Name
- 896
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Risse
Meaning & Origins
German: 1. variant of Riss. 2. perhaps a habitational name for someone from Rissen, west of Hamburg. Bahlow identifies riss as a word meaning ‘swamp’, ‘marsh’.
| 25,512th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 896
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- South Dakota
- has the most people named Risse per capita
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