Family name origins & meanings
- North German and Dutch : occupational name for a maker of leather reins and similar articles, from Middle Low German remer ‘leather worker’ (compare Riemer).
- North German : from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements ragin ‘counsel’ + māri, m{e__}ri ‘fame’, as in Reimer.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from German Römer ‘Roman’.