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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : of uncertain origin; in the northwest of Germany it is most probably a topographic name from a field name based on run ‘mud’, which gave rise to several place names in the Rhine-Ruhr area, for example Runten, Runtenberg, Rünthe.

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