Meaning & History
Variant of Range.
A topographic name for someone who lived by a bend or slope in a thoroughfare, from rang ‘bend’ or from a short form of a Germanic personal name based on rang, rank ‘curved’, ‘bending’; ‘slender’.
A topographic name for someone who lived by a bend or slope in a thoroughfare, from rang ‘bend’ or from a short form of a Germanic personal name based on rang, rank ‘curved’, ‘bending’; ‘slender’.