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’.