Släkthistoria för Regent
Regent Vad efternamn betyder
Polish Czech and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic); French (Régent): status name or nickname from a vernacular form of Latin regens ‘ruling’ present participle of regere ‘to rule’. The usual meaning of the word is ‘one who governs in place of a sovereign (typically one who is still a child or who is incapacitated through mental or other illness)’ but at certain medieval universities regent was a status name for a member of the teaching faculty who held a particular position of authority. The surname could have denoted a servant of a regent in either sense or it may have been a nickname for someone who behaved as if he was in charge. As a Jewish name it is artificial. English (Suffolk): variant of Ridgeon (also found as Redgin and Redgen) a Suffolk form of Rigden. The addition of final -t may have been motivated by false association with the word regent (see 1 above).
Källa: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022