The rohn Surname
rohn Name Meaning and History
- nickname for a coarse or uncouth person, from Middle High German ron(e) ‘stump’, ‘block’.
- habitational name from places named Rohne, Rohna, or Ronau in Silesia, Thuringia, and Saxony.
- from a short form of the medieval personal name Hieronymus (see Jerome).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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