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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : topographic name for someone who lived in a marshy place, from Middle Low German red ‘bog’ + man ‘man’.
  • North German : variant of Rehm 2, with the addition of Middle Low German man ‘man’.
  • from a Germanic personal name formed with ragin ‘advice’, ‘counsel’ as a first element + man ‘man’.
  • Muslim : variant of Rahman.

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