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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : variant of Runte.
  • Norwegian : habitational name from an island farmstead in Sunnmøre called Runde, probably derived from Old Norse hrinda ‘thrust’, ‘push’, with reference to a projecting island or promontory.

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