The ranger Surname
ranger Name Meaning and History
- English: occupational name for a gamekeeper or warden, from Middle English ranger, an agent derivative of range(n) ‘to arrange or dispose’.
- German: variant of Rang 2, 3.
- German: habitational name for someone from any of the places named Rangen, in Alsace, Bavaria, and Hesse.
- French: from a Germanic personal name formed with rang, rank ‘curved’, ‘bent’; ‘slender’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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