Randa Family History

Norwegian: habitational name from a farm name derived from Old Norse rǫnd generally meaning ‘edge, brim, brink, rim in a hillside’ in Lom in Oppland ‘long ridge’. Czech: from a pet form of the Old Czech personal name Ranožír.

Czech: nickname for a noisy person derived from the same root as randal ‘noise, uproar’. Slovak: nickname from dialect randa ‘rag’ or randavý ‘ragged’, applied to a very poor or an untidy person.

French (eastern): topographic name for someone who lived at the boundary of a territory or on the margin of a settlement from randa, a word of Gaulish origin.

Spanish: shortened form of Aranda.