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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : nickname for a gossipmonger or rumormonger, from Middle High German rūner ‘whisperer’, ‘slanderer’.
  • German : habitational name for someone from Raun near Plauen or from Hohenraunau (formerly Raun) in Allgäu.

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