Renko Family History

Slovenian: probably a nickname from a derivative of dialect vreti ‘to shout to grumble’. Alternatively, perhaps from an altered form of Ranko, a variant of the old personal name Vranko, derived from vran ‘black’.

Finnish: habitational name from farms so named of unknown etymology. Established as a hereditary surname in Ostrobothnia in western Finland in the 19th century, but the farm names are from the Middle Ages.

German: from a pet form of an ancient Germanic personal name formed with the element rang ‘curved, bending’; ‘slender’. This surname is very rare in Germany.