Reifer: Last Name Origin and Family Crest

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What Reifer means

Reifer is one more way Reif has been written over the centuries. At root, the name means “A descendant of Rifo, a pet form of Ricfrid”.

Reifer is built on the same root as Reif, with the ending -er. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. Other spellings include Reiff, Riff and Raif. 387 Americans were listed as Reifer in the 2010 census.

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