Frequency: (208)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Jewish (from Belarus): habitational name from the village of Ryabki, now in Belarus, + the eastern Slavic possessive suffix -in.
GIVEN NAMES: Jewish 18%; Russian 11%. Sol (2), Aron, Chaya, Hyman, Isak, Meier, Meyer, Miriam, Naum; Boris (4), Vladimir (3), Igor (2), Mikhail (2), Dmitri, Galina, Leonid, Lev, Lidiya, Yevgeniy.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
