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Meaning & History
English: occupational name for a gamekeeper or warden, from Middle English ranger, an agent derivative of range(n) ‘to arrange or dispose’.
German: variant of Rang or a habitational name for someone from any of the places named Rangen, in Alsace, Bavaria, and Hesse.
French: from a Germanic personal name formed with rang, rank ‘curved’, ‘bent’; ‘slender’.
German: variant of Rang or a habitational name for someone from any of the places named Rangen, in Alsace, Bavaria, and Hesse.
French: from a Germanic personal name formed with rang, rank ‘curved’, ‘bent’; ‘slender’.