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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : variant of Remer 2.
  • North German : habitational name from any of various places called Rehm, Rehme, or Rehmen, mostly in the northern parts of Germany. The place names probably derive from a field name from Middle Low German rēme ‘strap’, ‘ribbon’, thus, by extension ‘strip of land’.

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