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Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : nickname for a coarse or uncouth person, from Middle High German ron(e) ‘stump’, ‘block’.
  • German : habitational name from places named Rohne, Rohna, or Ronau in Silesia, Thuringia, and Saxony.
  • German : from a short form of the medieval personal name Hieronymus (see Jerome).

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