Family name origins & meanings
- German : nickname for a gossipmonger or rumormonger, from Middle High German rūner ‘whisperer’, ‘slanderer’.
- German : habitational name for someone from Raun near Plauen or from Hohenraunau (formerly Raun) in Allgäu.
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