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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA surname · A male given name · A female given name transferred from the surname, of 1980s and later American usage.
* As a given name and British surname generally from Welsh Rhys (literally “ardor”). * Chiefly in North America, the surname may also be from unrelated German Reese (literally “giant”).
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