Rankin: Name Meaning, Origin, Popularity, & Inspiration

Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

Anglo-Saxon : Shield; wolf
Old English : Son of the shield
Latin : Redeemer

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Family name origins & meanings

Scottish and northern Irish : from the medieval personal name Rankin, a diminutive of Ronald or Rand, with the diminutive suffix -kin.

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