Släkthistoria för Rignall
Rignall Vad efternamn betyder
variant of Reynold. Ragnald Regnal(d) Raignald and Rignal(d) occur widely across England as Middle English and early Modern English forms of Reynold. It is unclear to what extent the historical spellings with -gn- represent a voiced palatal nasal /ɲ/ (as in French vigne) or the consonant cluster /gn/ that is present in the modern surname. The earliest examples of Rag- spellings of given names in Yorks Lincs Notts and Norfolk belong to Old Scandinavian Ragnaldr which was probably absorbed at an early date into Reynold.perhaps from Rignall in Worminghall (Bucks) but this is not recorded until 1612 (as Ricknall) and may be a farm name derived from the surname of a tenant. Compare ‘the capital messuage tenement or farm in Great Missenden called Ricknolds als Rignolds als Rikkohalte als Rightolte’ 1697 in Centre for Bucks Studies . The farm names could formally derive from Ricknall (Durham) supposing that a family of that name moved to London and the south midlands but no evidence has been found for a medieval surname from this place and the explanation offered in (i) is the most likely. The Durham place-name derives from the Old English personal name Rīca (genitive Rīcan) or possibly from a stream name *Ríce ‘rich (in fish)’ + Old English halh ‘nook corner of land’ or ‘water-meadow’.
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016