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re Name Meaning and History

  1. Italian (Ré): from re ‘king’, possibly denoting someone who lived by or worked in a royal court, or someone who behaved in regal fashion, had played the part of a king in a pageant, or who had earned the title in some contest of skill.
  2. Northern Italian (Re): habitational name for someone from a place named with ré ‘river’, for example Re in Novara.
  3. French (Ré): habitational name from a place so named in Indre or from the Ile de Ré.

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re Family Facts

Distribution of re Families in the US in 1920
Number of re families
 18-34
 7-17		 1-6
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Threads: 14 - Messages: 61
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John Joesph Re magpiesarah 2
Re Family Richard C. Richardson 2
Lewis RE, Italian Doctor Dies in 1940 OK Obits101 0
Surname of RE Sue Ann Farasy-Mueller (Sue) 14
Re to Rey From Italy,Frank or Francesco alrey911 7
Looking for husband's ancestry Norene Re' 9
looking for relatives oreo9noz 1
Giovanni Re married Rosa Gualdoni betty mclaughlin 0
Re family for Sicily SusanGagin 0
Re family dulce1325 3
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