Family name origins & meanings
- German : from a reduced form of any of the Germanic compound personal names with the first element ragin ‘counsel’, for example Reinhold or Reinhard (see Reinhardt).
- German : much altered reduced form of the personal name Laurens or Lorenz (see Lawrence).
- German : short form of a personal name of Slavic origin, formed with the element Ranu ‘early’.
- German : variant of Renschler.