Ryba Family History
Ryba Name Meaning
Polish Czech Slovak Sorbian and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name nickname or a Jewish artificial name from Polish Czech and Slovak ryba ‘fish’. As a metonymic occupational name it may have denoted a fisherman or a seller of fish (see also Ribar Rybak and Rybarczyk ). As a nickname it may have been bestowed on account of some fancied physical resemblance to a fish. The Sorbian surname is found mainly in Germanized forms such as Riebe .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022