Surname Spotlight: Renfroe

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Meaning of the name

Renfroe belongs to the Renfro family of names, which has Scottish roots. In origin, the name means “Someone from Renfrew in Scotland”.

The extra “e” in Renfroe is a spelling habit rather than a different name. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. You may also find the name written Rentfro, Renfrew and Renfrow. Renfroe ranked 6,956 in the 2010 US Census, with 4,822 people answering to the name. That is enough to place it in the top 10,000 American surnames.

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