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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English and French : occupational name for a wheelright, from Old French roier, rouwier, rouer, roer.
  • French : from a Germanic personal name composed of hrōd ‘renown’ + hari, heri ‘army’.
  • Respelling of German Rauer.

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