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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Origin unidentified. Possibly a respelling of German Rensch or Ränsch, Rantsch, which are probably from a Germanic pet form of a Slavic personal name. The surname is found in English records, but appears to have been taken there from Germany and Switzerland.

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