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Rachel

• From: Hebrew רָחֵל (Rachel)
• Meaning: Ewe
• Quenya: Mámë (máma+[ë] = sheep+[feminine names suffix])

Rae

• From: English short form of Rachel or feminine form of Ray which is the short form of Raymond
  
• Meaning: See Rachel and Ramón entries here
• Quenya: Mámë (máma+[ë] = sheep+[feminine names suffix]) OR Maquevarnë (mára+quetta+varya+[në] = good+word+vb. to protect+[feminine names suffix])

Rafaela

• From: Spanish, Portuguese & Macedonian feminine form of the Hebrew name רָפָאֵל (Rafa’el)
• Meaning: See Raphael entry here.
• Quenya: Eruenvinyantë  (Eru+envinyanta+[ë] = God+healed, renewed+[feminine names suffix])

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Ramón

• From: Spanish form of Raymond which comes from the Germanic name Raginmund composed of the elements ragin & mund.
• Meaning: Ragin means “advice” and mund means “protector”
• Quenya: Maquevarno (mára+quetta+varya+[no] = good+word+vb. to protect+[masculine names suffix])

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Raphael

• From: Hebrew name רָפָאֵל (Rafa’el)
• Meaning: Yahweh has healed
• Quenya: Eruenvinyanto (Eru+envinyanta+[o] = God+healed, renewed+[masculine names suffix])

Raul

• From: Italian and Portuguese form of the contracted form Ralph which comes from Radulf from the Old Norse  Ráðúlfr.
• Meaning: Ráð means “counsel” and úlfr means “wolf”
• Quenya: Asëanarmo (asëa + narmo = helpful + wolf). [Obs.: There's no word in Quenya for "counsel" and here it was applied the adjective asëa to express the beneficial nature of counsels.

Rebecca

• From:  Hebrew name רִבְקָה (Rivqah)
  
• Meaning: Possibly means "cow, cattle" or even "snare"
• Quenya: Yaxië (yaxë+[ië] = n. cow+[feminine names suffix])

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Regina

• From: Late Latin name REGINA
• Meaning: Queen
• Quenya: Tári (tári = queen)

Renan

• From: Irish name Rónán which came from the word rón
• Meaning: Seal
• Quenya: Eärhuon (ëar+huon = sea+dog)

René

• From: French form of Latin RENATVS
• Meaning: Born again
• Quenya: Atanóno (ata+nóna+[o] = again+born+[masculine names suffix])

Renée

• From: Feminine French form of Latin RENATVS
• Meaning: See René entry here
• Quenya: Atanónë (ata+nóna+[ë] = again+born+[feminine names suffix])

Reuel

• From: Hebrew name
• Meaning: Friend of God
• Quenya: Erumeldo (Eru+meldo = God+friend)

Richard

• From: Germanic elements ric and hard.
• Meaning: Brave power. Ric means power, rule & hard means brave, hardy.
• Quenya: Túretulco (túrë+tulca+[o] = power+strong,brave,firm+[masculine names suffix])

Robert

• From: Germanic name Hrodebert. 
• Meaning: Bright fame, derived from the Germanic elements hrod ”fame” and beraht “bright”. 
• Quenya: Calialcaro (calima+alcar+[o] = bright+splendour, glory+[masculine names suffix])

Rohit

• From:  Sanskrit word रोहित (rohita)
  
• Meaning: Red
• Quenya: Carno (carnë+[o] = red+[masculine names suffix])

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Romolo

• From: Italian form of Latin ROMVLVS
• Meaning: Of Rome, from Rome
• Quenya: Romallo (Roma+[llo] = Quenya orthographic equivalent of the city name+[ablative suffix])

Ronald

• From:Scottish form of Ragnvaldr, a name introduced in Scotland by Scandinavian settlers and invaders.
• Meaning: Old Norse elements  regin “advice, counsel” and valdr ”ruler”. Variant forms and related names: Renaud, Ronaldo, Reinhold, Reynaldo, Reinaldo, Rinaldo, Ragnvald, Reino.
• Quenya: Marqueturo (mára+quetta+turë+[o] = good+word+vb. to rule+[masculine names suffix])

Rose

• From: Originally a Norman form of a Germanic name, introduced in England by the Norms as Roese & Rohese. From an early it’s also associated with the name of the flower coming from Latin ROSA.
• Meaning: The Norman form used the Germanic elements hrod meaning “fame” & heid meaning “kind, sort, type”. The Latin association is self-explanatory.
• Quenya: Alcanostalë (alcar+nostalë = glory, fame+species, kind) OR Necellotië (necel+lótë+[ië] = thorn+flower+[feminine names suffix]) OBS.: Quenya hasn’t got a word for “rose” (the flower), so through etymological research we find a hypothetical Proto-Indo-European word *wrdho- meaning “thorn, bramble” from where the word for the flower was derived.

Roshanda

• From: Unknown origin
• Meaning: Unknown
• Quenya: Rotyanda (orthographic equivalent due to the lack of etymology)

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Ross

• From: Scottish and English surname, originally belonging to someone who lived on a headland.
• Meaning: Promontory in Gaelic
• Quenya: Nehto (nehtë+[o] = angle, spearhead, wedge, narrow promontory+[masculine names suffix])

Ryan

• From:  an Irish surname which was derived from Ó Riain
• Meaning: Ó Riain means “descendant of Rían”. The given name Rían probably means “little king” (from Irish rí ”king” combined with a diminutive suffix).
• Quenya: Aranincëo (aran + [incë] + {o} = king + [diminutive suffix] + {genitive suffix expressing the idea of descendant of}

Rylie

• From: Feminine variant of Riley coming from a surname with two distinct sources. As an Irish surname, it comes from Reilly derived from the given name Raghailleach. As an English surname  it is derived from a place name in Old English.
• Meaning: In the Irish variant, the meaning is unknown. In Old English, it meant “rye clearing”
• Quenya: Orirestë (orë+resta+[ë] = n. grain+n. field+[feminine names suffix])

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