| ![Show Contents]() Raynal History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
Etymology of RaynalWhat does the name Raynal mean? The French Raynal surname comes from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements "ragin," meaning "counsel" and "wald," or "rule." There are many regional variants of the name which include Renaux and Renault from Orleans and Tours; Renaut in the North; Renaudel from Normandy; Renaudeau in the West; and Raynaud and Raynal from the area around Nice. Early Origins of the Raynal familyThe surname Raynal was first found in southern France, where the Raynal surname and its variants have long since been established. There is an early record of a Theophile Raynaud, born in 1583 in the village of Sospello near Nice, and who entered the Jesuit Order in 1602. Early History of the Raynal familyThis web page shows only a small excerpt of our Raynal research. Another 34 words (2 lines of text) covering the years 1527, 1541, 1546, 1555, 1568, 1581, 1591, 1606, 1711 and 1796 are included under the topic Early Raynal History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Raynal Spelling VariationsSpelling variations of this family name include: Raynal, Raynald, Raynaldy, Raynaly and others. Early Notables of the Raynal family- Renaud de Beaune (1527-1606) of Tours, a French Catholic ecclesiastic, who was made Bishop of Mende in 1568, Archbishop of Bourges in 1581, and was made the grand almoner of King Henry IV of France in...
- Over in England, Thomas Raynalde (fl. 1546) was an English author and editor. A printer of the same name was well known in London between 1541 and 1555, and he printed the first of the two books of Th...
Raynal RankingFrance, the name Raynal is the 721st most popular surname with an estimated 6,762 people with that name. 1
| Raynal migration to the United States | + |
Raynal Settlers in United States in the 19th Century- I Raynal, aged 35, who arrived in New Orleans, La in 1839 2
| Contemporary Notables of the name Raynal (post 1700) | + |
- Frédérick Raynal, French video game designer and programmer
- Guillaume Thomas Raynal (1713-1796), French writer and man of letters during the Age of Enlightenment
- Michel Raynal, French Professor of Computer Science at the Université de Rennes
- Colonel Raynal Cawthorne Bolling (1877-1918), American Army officer
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- Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
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