Given name & surname · also German
Rieck
“spear”
Rieck is a surname with more than one origin.
Original GermanRiek
Meaning & origin
What it means
As a south German surname, Rieck goes back to a word meaning “spear.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Rieck has more than one origin: as a south German surname, it comes from Proto-West Germanic *hrōþi; as a north German surname, it goes back to a word meaning “powerful, mighty”; as a Germanized Lower Sorbian surname, it comes from Old High German reccho.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Rieck’s family of names
In German usage, Rieck as a surname has a related form in RIEK.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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