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[Surname] Rangeloff
I was looking for the origin of the last name Rangeloff but cannot seem to locate it. I guess if I had to assume I would guess Albanian or German, or somewhere in those whereabouts.
If anyone could help with origin or even history, that would be great.
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I was thinking it was an aglicization of Rangelov, the Russian spelling
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a variant of ...Rengel
Swiss German: from a pet form of a Germanic personal name formed with rang ‘curved’, ‘bending’; ‘slender’.
Spanish: habitational name from a place called Rengel in Málaga provinceThe -off is a diminutive likely meaning "son of"
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This name is certainly Bulgarian, though perhaps found elsewhere. The usual spelling in English would be Rangelov. Rangel appears to be a male forename, and a corrupt form of Archangel. Angelov, from Angel, is also a Bulgarian surname.
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