Last name: RICHEY

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RICHEY : This last name is indexed 41,100 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

RICHEY : 1: German: from a short form of an ancient Germanic personal name based on rīc ‘power(ful)’ (see Reich) or from the female personal name Rikheit from rīc + suffix -heit ‘way of being’. This surname is rare in Germany.2: Probably also an Americanized form of German Reiche or Ritsche (see Ritchey 2).3: English and northern Irish: variant of Ritchie.

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