First name origin & meaning: Anglo-Saxon: Shield; wolf First name variations: Randolf, Randall, Randal, Randell, Randl, Randle, Randy, Rankin, Ran, Randie, Ranulf, Dolf, Dolph, Randolph Last name origins & meanings:
- 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’.
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