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The rego Surname

rego Name Meaning and History

  1. Portuguese and Galician: habitational name from any of the numerous places in Portugal and Galicia called Rego, named with rego ‘ditch’, ‘channel’, ‘furrow’.
  2. Dutch: from a Germanic personal name with the first element ragin ‘counsel’ + guda ‘god’, or goda ‘good’, or gauta ‘Goth’.
  3. Dutch: variant of Rega 2.
  4. Hungarian (Rego): occupational name for a musician or poet, from rege ‘song’, ‘tale’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of rego Families in the US in 1920
Number of rego families
 64-126
 22-63
 1-21
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