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ranum Name Meaning and History

  1. Norwegian: habitational name from any of several farmsteads named in Old Norse as either Ranheimr or Randheimr, the second element in each case being heimr ‘home’, ‘farmstead’, the first elements being respectively rani ‘muzzle’, ‘nose’ (with reference to a natural formation, such as a mountain or rocky outcrop so shaped), and rand ‘edge’, ‘brink’.
  2. Danish: habitational name from a place name with the same derivation as Randheimr (see 1).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of ranum Families in the US in 1920
Number of ranum families
 9-15
 4-8		 1-3
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INGEMANN ELIASSEN RANUM, b. 06-1863; m. KATRINE OLSDOTTER; b. Namsos ahildrum 2
Ranum family from MT Austali 0
Ranum JErlandson4448 0
looking for kirkland families jody-ann kirkland 0
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Trying to find a relative Beverley Muir 1
HALLE EDVARD LAURITS ELIASSEN RANUM, b. 01-12-1861; m. NETHIE PETTERSON; b. USA ahildrum 0
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