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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : variant of Range.
  • German : topographic name for someone who lived by a bend or slope in a thoroughfare, from rang ‘bend’.
  • German : from a short form of a Germanic personal name based on rang, rank ‘curved’, ‘bending’; ‘slender’.

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