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Ransom \r(a)-nsom, ran-som\ as a boy's name is of Old English origin, and the meaning of Ransom is "warrior's shield". Also possibly "shield's son" or a variant of Randolph. Used as first name mainly in the late Victorian era.
Some famous Ransoms include Ransom Eli Olds, creator of the REO Speedwagon (a car from which the band got its name); Ransom Riggs, author of the best-selling novel Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children; the fictional Elwin Ransom, who is usually called just Ransom throughout C. S. Lewis's space trilogy, and the fictional Ransom Stoddard, played by James Stewart in John Ford's flick "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance."
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