Richey

Boy name variations

Family name origins & meanings

• German : from a short form of a Germanic personal name based on rīc ‘power(ful)’ (see Reich), or from the female personal name Rikheit, from rīc + suffix -heit ‘way of being’.
• Possibly an Americanized spelling of German Reiche or Ritsche (see Ritchey 2).
• English and northern Irish : variant spelling of Ritchie.