Rand Family History
Rand Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English personal name Rand(e),
a short form of any of the various Germanic compound personal names
with the first element rand ‘(shield) rim’, as for example
Randolph.English: topographic name for someone who lived
on the margin of a settlement or on the bank of a river (from Old
English rand ‘rim’, used in a topographical sense), or a
habitational name from a place named with this word, as for example
Rand in Lincolnshire and Rand Grange in North Yorkshire.German:
from a short form of any of the various compound names formed with
rand- ‘rim’. Compare 1.German: topographic name from
Middle High German, Middle Low German rand, rant ‘edge’,
‘rim’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Rand Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Rand families
 134 - 265  45 - 133 |
 1 - 44  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Rand families
|
169 - 335 57 - 168 |
1 - 56 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Rand families
|
2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Rand Family Origin
Rand Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Rand
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Rand Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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