Given name & surname · also Finnish
Rinne
“stream, spring; channel, pipe, groove”
Rinne is a surname from Finnish, ultimately from Middle High German. It is used in English, Finnish, and Estonian.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Rinne goes back to Middle High German rinne, meaning “stream, spring; channel, pipe, groove.”
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Where it comes from
Rinne comes from Finnish, and ultimately from Middle High German.
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How it developed
From Finnish Rinne, from German Rinne, from Middle High German rinne (“stream, spring; channel, pipe, groove”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Rinne’s family of names
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Rinne
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