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(“raymond” is a male given name)
(it was borrowed into ‘english’ from ‘french’ (older ‘french’ spellings were ‘reimund’ and ‘raimund’, whereas the modern ‘english’ and ‘french’ spellings are identical))
(it originated as the germanic raginmund or “reginmund”)
(“ragin” (‘old german’) and “regin” (‘gothic’) meant “counsel”)
(the “old high german” “mund” originally meant “hand,” but came to mean “protection”)
(this etymology suggests that the name originated in the ‘early middle ages’, possibly from ‘latin’)
(despite the ‘german’ and ‘french’ origins of the ‘english’ name, some of its early uses in ‘english’ documents appear in ‘latinized’ form)
(as a ‘surname’, its first recorded appearance in ‘britain’ appeared in ‘1086’, during the reign of ‘william the conqueror’, in the ‘domesday book’, with a reference to ‘giraldus reimundus’)
(the most commonly used names for baby boys based on “ragin” in ‘2009’ were, in descending order, ‘raymond’, ‘ramiro’, ‘rayner’, ‘rein’, ‘reingard’, ‘reynard’, and “reynold”)
(its many other variants include “raiment”, ‘raimo’, ‘raimond’, ‘raimondi’, ‘raimondo’, ‘raimund’, ‘raimundo’, ‘ramon’, ‘ramón’, ‘ramond’, ‘ramondelli’, ‘ramondenc’, ‘ramondi’, ‘ramondini’, ‘ramondino’, ‘ramondo’, ‘ramondou’, ‘ramonenc’, ‘ramonic’, ‘ramundi’, ‘rayment’, ‘raymonenc’, ‘raymonencq’, ‘raymont’, ‘raymund’, ‘redmond’, ‘redmonds’, ‘reim’, ‘reimund’, ‘reinmund’, ‘rémon’, ‘rémond’, ‘remondeau’, ‘remondon’, ‘rémont’, ‘reymond’, ‘rimondi’, and “rimondini”)
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