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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : (Swabian): from Middle German remp ‘breeding bull’; a nickname for someone with a lecherous reputation, or for someone who owned a breeding bull.
  • German : from a short form of the personal name Rembold or Reimbert. Compare Remmel, Remmert.

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