Rye Family History
Rye Name Meaning
English: variant of Rea . English: topographic name for someone living at a place where rye (Old English ryge) was grown or perhaps an occupational name for someone who grew or sold it. Norwegian: habitational name from any of several farmsteads so named most of them from Old Norse rjóthr ‘clearing in a forest’. Danish: habitational name from a place called Rye.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022