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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from the Germanic personal name Rando, a short form of various names formed with rand ‘(shield) rim’ as the first element, or from a Slavic name formed with ranu ‘early’.
  • German : from Middle High German ranz ‘sow’ or ‘strife’, or Middle High German rans ‘paunch’, a nickname from any of these senses.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Rantz.

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