The register Surname
register Name Meaning and History
English: perhaps from Middle English, Old French registre
‘register’, ‘book for recording enactments’, hence perhaps a metonymic
occupational name for a scribe or clerk.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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