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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : topographic name for someone who lived by the Rhine river, which is first recorded in the Roman period in the form Rhenus; it may be derived from a Celtic element meaning ‘to flow’.
  • German : from a short form of a Germanic personal name formed with ragin ‘advice’, ‘counsel’.

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