Origin
Re : 1: Italian: from re ‘king’ possibly denoting someone who lived by or worked in a royal court or someone who behaved in regal fashion had played the part of a king in a pageant or who had earned the title in some contest of skill. Compare Lore 1.2: Italian: habitational name from a place called with re ‘river’ for example Re in Novara.3: In some cases possibly also French (Ré): habitational name from a place so named Indre or from the Île de Ré.
Graley : 1: English (Lancashire): variant of Greasley a habitational name from any of the places so called in Nottinghamshire or Derbyshire or a nickname either from Old French greslet ‘marked as by hail’ i.e. pitted or pock-marked or Old French greslet gresli grailet ‘thin slim’.2: Possibly an Americanized form of German Greulich.3: Irish: variant of Greally from Mag Raoghallaigh ‘son of Raoghallach’ a variant of Raghailleach; compare O'Reilly.
Greally : from Mag Raoghallaigh ‘son of Raoghallach’ a variant of Raghailleach; compare O'Reilly.
Greeley : Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Mag Raoghallaigh ‘son of Raoghallach’ a variant of Raghailleach; compare O'Reilly.
Herre : 1: German: variant of Herr. This surname is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine).2: Norwegian: habitational name from either of two farmsteads so named either from Old Norse herath ‘settlement settled district’ or from Old Norse hár ‘high’ + ré ‘ridge’.3: French (Herré): habitational name from a place in Landes. The placename is a Gascon form of Ferré ultimately a derivative of Latin ferrarium ‘worker in iron smith’.
Lore : 1: Italian (southern; also Lo Re): variant of Re ‘king’ with the addition of the definite article lo.2: Altered form of English Lory.3: English: perhaps from Middle English lore ‘teaching instruction knowledge’ or possibly a variant of Law.4: Hungarian (Lőre): from a pet form of the personal name Lőrinc (see Lorincz).5: In some cases possibly also French (Loré): habitational name from Loré in Orne from the Gallo-Roman estate Lauriacum.
O'Reiley : from Ó Raghailligh see O'Reilly.
O'Rielly : from Ó Raghailligh see O'Reilly.
O'Riley : Irish: variant of O'Reilly.
Olanrewaju : from the personal name O̩láńrewájú (Yoruba ǫlá ń re iwájú ‘nobility progresses or advances’).
Raile : South German:: 1: Swabian nickname for a nimble person from a diminutive of Middle High German rē ‘roe deer’.2: variant of Reile.
Ralley : 1: from Ó Raghailligh see O'Reilly. 2: see Raleigh.
Rally : from Ó Raghailligh see O'Reilly.
Ree : 1: English and Scottish: variant of Rea; compare Ray.2: Norwegian: habitational name from any of the six farmsteads named Re the name being derived from an unattested Old Norse word meaning ‘long narrow gravel ridge’.3: Korean: variant of Ri 2 itself a variant of Yi 1.
Reeh : 1: North German: nickname from Middle Low German rē ‘roedeer’.2: Korean: variant of Ri 2 itself a variant of Yi 1.
Regan : Irish: shortened form of O'Regan an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Ríagáin ‘descendant of Riagán’ a personal name which is perhaps akin to ríodhach ‘impulsive furious’. It can also be from Mag Riagáin ‘son of Riagán’. Compare Ryan.
Rehbein : German:: 1: nickname for someone who was fleet of foot or slender and graceful from Middle Low German rē ‘roe deer’ + bein ‘bone leg’.2: from the personal name Rachwin a compound of rahha ‘revenge’ + wini ‘friend’. Compare Rabine.
Rehfeld : German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name from any of the places mainly in eastern Germany so named from Middle German rē ‘roe deer’ + feld ‘pasture open country’. As a Jewish name it can be artificial with the same meaning.
Rehkopf : German: from Middle German rē ‘roe deer’ + kopf ‘head’ hence a nickname for someone thought to have a face like a deer's perhaps with large soft eyes.
Reilly : Irish: from Ó Raghailligh see O'Reilly.
Relly : perhaps a variant of Irish Reilly; see O'Reilly..
Rieley : from Irish Ó Raghailligh see O'Reilly.
Rielly : 2: English and Scottish: variant of Riley.1: Irish: variant of Reilly; see O'Reilly.
Riley : 1: English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): habitational name chiefly from High Ryley in Accrington (Lancashire) and Riley in Kirkburton which was in the manor of Wakefield (Yorkshire). In some cases the name may derive from Riley Farm in Eyam (Derbyshire) Royley in Royton (Lancashire) or Rylah in Scarcliffe (Derbyshire). The placenames all come from Old English rȳge ‘rye’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.2: Irish: from Ó Raghailligh ‘descendant of Raghailleach’ Old Irish Roghallach. This is the name of a chieftain family in Cavan related to the O'Rourkes. In Anglicized form it has also been confused with Ó Raithile found in Munster usually Anglicized as O'Rahilly or Rahilly. See O'Reilly.
Rillie : Scottish variant of Irish Ó Raghailligh see O'Reilly.
Riotto : Italian:: 1: from a short form of a personal name ending in -otto such as Mariotto (see Mariotti).2: possibly a nickname from Sicilian riottu a diminutive of re ‘king’.
Rowley : 1: English: habitational name from one or more of various places called Rowley or Rowly such as Rowley Regis (Staffordshire) Rowley (Devon Durham) Rowleygreen Farm (Hertfordshire) Rowly (Surrey) Rowley (East Yorkshire) Rowley near Bardsey (Yorkshire) Rowley in Lepton (Yorkshire) and Rowley Hill (Essex). The placenames probably all derive from Old English rūh ‘rough’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’ though the East Yorkshire place may have been named with hlāw ‘mound hill’ as the second element.2: Irish: from Ó Roghallaigh a variant of Ó Raghailligh. See Riley and O'Reilly.
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Source : DAFN2 : Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, ©2022 by Patrick Hanks and Oxford University Press
FANBI : The Oxford Dictionary if Family Names in Britain and Ireland, ©2016, University of the West of England
FANBI : The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain, ©2021, University of the West of England
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