The ryland Surname
ryland Name Meaning and History
- English: topographic name for someone who lived near a piece of land where rye was grown, from Old English ryge ‘rye’ + land ‘land’.
- Norwegian: habitational name from any of three farmsteads in Vestlandet so named from an unexplained first element + land ‘land’, ‘farm’.
- Probably an altered spelling of Dutch Reiland.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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