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Richard vs Reece - What's the difference?

richard | reece |

As proper nouns the difference between richard and reece

is that richard is cognate to richard while reece is derived from the (etyl) rhys, and the anglicised rees.

richard

English

Proper noun

(s)
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  • * ~1593 William Shakespeare: Richard III: Act V, Scene II :
    • What! do I fear myself? there's no one else by; / Richard' loves ' Richard ; that is, I am I.
  • * 1629 , , Meditations upon Creed'', ''The Works of Thomas Adams, James Nichol (1862) , volume 3, page 212:
    • But we have known Williams and Richards , names not found in sacred story, but familiar to our country, prove as gracious saints as any Safe deliverance'', ''Fight the good fight of faith , or such like,
  • * 1985 , , Pride , ISBN 0394536363, page 97:
    • I'd love to live in our castle. First I'd change my name from Dickie to Richard . That's my real name and it's a good king name. I don't like being called Dickie anyway, and I don't want to be Dick Junior either because everybody starts calling you Junior. What I'd like to be called is Rich but I don't know how to start people doing it.

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    reece

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • derived from the (etyl) Rhys, and the Anglicised Rees.
  • , transferred from the surname.