Rymour is used as a family name or surname in England. It is 6 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Rymour
No. of characters: 6
Origin: England
Meaning:

Form of the Rimbault. The same as Rumbold? - Reinbald, a Teutonic name of great antiquity, whence Rumbolds-Wyke, county of Sussex. Reinbald, Rumbaidus, Rumoldus, etc., occur in Domesday.

Family name Rymour is a form of the Rheims. Camden mentions this as a surname introduced about the time of the Norman Conquest. It is probably derived from the city of France so called.

The Rymour is form of Rainbow. Probably from an inn or trader's sign.

The lastname is variation of Rainbow. Descendant of Reginbald meaning "might, bold".

Is the variant of Rhymer. A maker of verses, who, in the middle ages, sometimes united the functions of the poet and the prophet, after the manner of the ancient bards and seers.

The lastname Rymour is the variation of Rymer. Doubtless a person skilled in making verses, like the far-famed Scotch man, Thomas the Rhymer. King Henry III kept a court poet, or poet-laureate, called Master Henry the Versifier, and paid him one hundred shillings per annum for Still earlier, Henry I had a bard who wrote laudatory verses about his master, and was called Walo Versificator. These old court-poets were called Archipoeta.

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