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Updated June 9, 2019

Girl name origins & meanings

  • Hebrew : To tie, bind; enchantingly beautiful
  • Hebrew : Bound, tied

Family name origins & meanings

  • Catalan : topographic name for someone who lived on the bank of a river or the shore of a lake, riba (Latin ripa), or a habitational name from La Riba, a town in Alt Camp, Tarragona, or any other place named with this word.
  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : variant spelling of Ryba ‘fish’.

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