Family name origins & meanings
- German : topographic name from Middle High German, Middle Low German rām(e) ‘end’, ‘target’, ‘mark’, or a habitational name from any of several places in Westphalia and Rhineland named with this word.
- German : from Middle High German, Middle Low German rām ‘soot’, possibly a metonymic occupational name for a blacksmith or charcoal burner, or a nickname for a dirty person.
- German : metonymic occupational name for a maker of frames (windows, looms, and the like), from Middle High German rame ‘stand’, ‘rack’, ‘frame’.
- German : variant spelling of Rehm.