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re Name Meaning and History

  1. Italian (Ré): from re ‘king’, possibly denoting someone who lived by or worked in a royal court, or someone who behaved in regal fashion, had played the part of a king in a pageant, or who had earned the title in some contest of skill.
  2. Northern Italian (Re): habitational name for someone from a place named with ‘river’, for example Re in Novara.
  3. French (Ré): habitational name from a place so named in Indre or from the Ile de Ré.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of re Families in the US in 1920
Number of re families
 18-34
 7-17
 1-6
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