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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • English : Son of the king

Boy name variations

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant of Royce.
  • Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farmsteads named Røyse, from Old Norse hreysi ‘heap of stones’.
  • Probably an Americanized spelling of German Reus (or the variant Reuse), Reuss (or the variant Reusse).

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