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The rand Surname

rand Name Meaning and History

  1. English: from the Middle English personal name Rand(e), a short form of any of the various Germanic compound personal names with the first element rand ‘(shield) rim’, as for example Randolph.
  2. English: topographic name for someone who lived on the margin of a settlement or on the bank of a river (from Old English rand ‘rim’, used in a topographical sense), or a habitational name from a place named with this word, as for example Rand in Lincolnshire and Rand Grange in North Yorkshire.
  3. German: from a short form of any of the various compound names formed with rand- ‘rim’. Compare 1.
  4. German: topographic name from Middle High German, Middle Low German rand, rant ‘edge’, ‘rim’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of rand Families in the US in 1920
Number of rand families
 134-265
 45-133		 1-44
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Luther Rand Betty Rand Lathrop 5
Rands In MN. sfate61 8
Rand family - North Herts. England sr20021 9
"Enslaved" African Americans in RAND records Karim Rann 17
London Rands with a German connection? markhiggie_1 1
Rand Family (Maine) rcbrownj15 0
Rand family Dorothy Paterson Nee Rand 15
Rand family of West Ham London, England? pjspeakman 16
Rand/Rands/Wheeler in Michigan mystic1842_1 0
Rand BARRY_STROUT 0
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