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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : topographic name, a variant of Rye 1 and 2, with the addition of ‘man’.
  • German (Raymann) and Dutch : from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements rād ‘counsel’ + man ‘man’.
  • Probably an Americanized spelling of German Rehmann.
  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from German Reinmann or central Yiddish raynman ‘pure man’.

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