Rohner
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Frequency: (543)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Swiss German: 1. habitational name for someone from any of various places named Rohne, Rohna, or Ronau (see Rohn 2). 2. topographic name for someone living by an area of dead trees, from Middle High German ron(e) ‘fallen tree’, ‘block of wood’. 3. from a Germanic personal name formed with rune ‘rune’.
GIVEN NAMES: German 4%. Ernst, Erwin, Fritz, Hans, Hedwig, Horst.
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