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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Swiss German : habitational name for someone from any of various places named Rohne, Rohna, or Ronau (see Rohn 2).
  • Swiss German : topographic name for someone living by an area of dead trees, from Middle High German ron(e) ‘fallen tree’, ‘block of wood’.
  • Swiss German : from a Germanic personal name formed with rune ‘rune’.

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