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rahn Name Meaning and History

  1. nickname from Middle High German ran ‘slim’, ‘slight’.
  2. from a short form of the Slavic personal name Ranislav.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of rahn Families in the US in 1920
Number of rahn families
 98-194
 33-97
 1-32
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 124 - Messages: 437
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sallnow dennsemm 28
Rahn,s in south-centrial PA. area JAMES M. RAHN 10
Rahns in Georgia leerahn1010 0
Rahn's of Richland North Dakota yeladybeth 3
Frank Rahn possibly Chicago, IL marilynwainio 4
jacob rhan jandak26 5
Where is my branch in Ohio? poiema1 3
Friedrich Rahn k (rahn) kiehler-przekora 4
Rahn ancestory Charles Thomas Rahn 8
Rahn,s in south-centrial PA. area JAMES M. RAHN 18
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