Names

Means “bank, shore” in Italian, from Latin ripa, denoting one who lived by a river or a lake.

From Middle High German riter meaning “rider, knight”, a cognate of Ryder.

From the name of various English towns, from Old English ripel “strip of land” and leah “clearing”. A notable fictional bearer is the character Ellen Ripley from the movie Alien (1979) and its sequels.

Originally denoted a person who lived near a river, from Portuguese rios “river”, ultimately from Latin rivus.

Spanish cognate of Rios.

Means “hillside” in Finnish.

Anglicized form of Ó Rinn.

Derived from the given name Rinaldo.

Occupational name meaning “poet”, from Middle English rime meaning “rhyme”.

Variant of Reilly.