Rye Family History
Rye Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived on an island ornpatch of firm ground surrounded by fens, from a misdivision of thenMiddle English phrase atter ye ‘at the island’ (from OldnEnglish eg, ieg ‘island’). adm English:ntopographic name for someone who lived near a river or stream, from anmisdivision of the Middle English phrase atter eye ‘at thenriver’ (from Old English ea ‘river’). adm; ADM: pleasencheck these two; you have ye and eye the other way round in your firstnchecking. KH English: topographic name for someone living at anplace where rye (Old English ryge) was grown, or perhaps anmetonymic occupational name for someone who grew or sold it. adm Norwegian: habitational name from a farmstead so named, most ofnthem from Old Norse rjóðr ‘clearing in a forest’, butnothers from ry ‘dry place with stones’. Danish:nhabitational name from a place called Rye. OV, LP. Hundreds ofnDanish and Norwegian in IGI, but only 18 for Sweden
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
