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First name origins & meanings:

  1. Gaelic: Little king
  2. Gaelic: Little king

First name variations: Rian, Ryanne, Ryan, Rhine, Rhyan, Rhyne, Ry, Ryane, Rian, Ryanne, Ryun, Ryan

Last name origins & meanings:

  1. Probably an altered spelling of Ryan.
  2. Norwegian: habitational name from any of more than ten farmsteads, originally named with Old Norse rugr ‘rye’ + vin ‘meadow’.