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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : nickname for a ragamuffin, from Middle High German range ‘naughty boy’, ‘urchin’.
  • German : variant of Rang 3.
  • French : from Old French renge ‘belt worn for battle’, with a wider sense in Middle French of ‘rein’, ‘strap’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker of such articles.

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