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The rehm Surname

rehm Name Meaning and History

  1. German: from the medieval personal name Rehm (see Remy). The former name was borne by a 6th-century bishop of Rheims; the latter was borne by various minor saints of the 8th to 10th centuries.
  2. German: from Middle High German reme ‘frame’, ‘loom’, ‘rack’, hence a metonymic occupational name for someone who made or used such items.
  3. North German: metonymic occupational name for a maker of leather reins and similar articles (see Riehm and Riemer).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of rehm Families in the US in 1920
Number of rehm families
 53-103
 18-52
 1-17
 0
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