Randa Family History
Randa Name Meaning
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 .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022