Regõ

Family name origins & meanings

• Portuguese and Galician : habitational name from any of the numerous places in Portugal and Galicia called Rego, named with rego ‘ditch’, ‘channel’, ‘furrow’.
• Dutch : from a Germanic personal name with the first element ragin ‘counsel’ + guda ‘god’, or gōda ‘good’, or gauta ‘Goth’.
• Dutch : variant of Rega 2.
• Hungarian (Regő) : occupational name for a musician or poet, from rege ‘song’, ‘tale’.