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Origin Of The Surname Riches
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Meaning Of The Surname Riches
Wealthy One
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Interesting
Facts About
Riches
Riches could have come from one of two origins. In both cases it would have been introduced to Britain by invading Normans. In the first case it could come from the Old French ‘riche’ meaning wealthy. It would have been given as a nickname and later used as a hereditary surname. Secondly it could come from the German first name Richard. In this case it would have been shortened to the pet form Rich and then suffixed with ‘s’ to make it patronymic. It would have been given as a surname to the kin of a man named Rich. |
Riches Statistics
Riches is the number 1248 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 8,105 share the surname Riches in the UK.
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