Family name origins & meanings
- Italian (Ré) : from re ‘king’, possibly denoting someone who lived by or worked in a royal court, or someone who behaved in regal fashion, had played the part of a king in a pageant, or who had earned the title in some contest of skill.
- Northern Italian (Re) : habitational name for someone from a place named with ré ‘river’, for example Re in Novara.
- French (Ré) : habitational name from a place so named in Indre or from the Ile de Ré.