Unusual Male Names From My Genealogy R-Z

Familiar as a Latin surname but has potential as a first.

An old name still occasionally heard in the U.K., but still and perhaps forever a foreigner in the U.S. Can be spelled Ranulf.

Attractive if phonetically confusing; also pronounced exactly the same as the Renault car.

Rice is really stretching the nature name boundary to its outer edges. But you may want to take it that far.

See ROLAND.

Russian form of Roderick given to a small number of American boys each year.

Name of nine provincial Spanish kings, but more likely to conjure up Sancho Panza, the hapless squire of Don Quixote.