Beavers at Utah Utes Official Gamethread - Game 3 of 3 - 3/17/24

Outside of the United States, most Renos are Italian.  Most American Renos, though, are versions of garbled French names.  There are also Spanish Renos.  There is an ancient Swiss house of Reno, which appears to be Italianized German (or, less likely, Germanized Italian), but it is unclear if those Renos are related to the Italian Renos or not.

In any instance, though, you are correct, Reno is not an Irish surname.

Having said all of that, I am pretty sure that Reno lives in the City of Reno.

Reno is named after Jesse Lee Reno.  The Renos were French Huguenots with the last name of Renault, which means that Reno is probably always mispronounced nowadays.  The "e" should be short and not long.

Jesse Lee Reno, the City of Reno's namesake, was a West Virginian, who moved with his family to Pennsylvania, when he was six or seven.  Reno went to West Point and was good friends with Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, finishing ahead of Jackson in his class.

In the Mexican War, Reno was with Winfield Scott Hancock all the way from Veracruz to Chapultepec (the "Halls of Montezuma") before being seriously injured.

Reno was one of the best artillery commanders in America and served in several posts throughout the country, finishing up defending the Mount Vernon Arsenal in Alabama.  He surrendered the Arsenal to the State of Alabama and returned to the North to fight the Civil War.  He was part of General Burnside's North Carolina Invasion, which was successful in destroying portions of North Carolina's Navy, taking dykes to ensure that Confederate ironclads could not easily navigate North Carolina waters,  and taking important railroad positions.  After Robert E. Lee defeated McClellan in the peninsula campaign, the North Carolina Campaign became impossible to maintain, and Reno was recalled to defend Washington, D.C., from Stonewall Jackson.  After losing the Second Battle of Bull Run, Lee and Jackson invaded Maryland.  Reno controlled the right third of the Union Army coming to attack at Antietam, but he was accidentally shot and killed by his own troops at South Mountain, one of the minor battles, which set up Antietam.  Some Confederates considered Reno a traitor, because he was born in West Virginia, and had invaded North Carolina.  At least one North Carolinian claimed credit for killing Reno.  Reno was brought to the Northern Surgeon, Sam Sturgis, who had gone to West Point with Reno.  Reno said, "Hallo, Sam, I'm dead!"  Sturgis thought that he sounded so natural that he must be joking and told Reno that he hoped it was not as bad as all that.  Reno repeated, "Yes, yes, I'm dead—good-by!"  And those were his last words.

He was buried in Georgetown.  There is a monument to Reno at the site that he was shot at Fox's Gap at South Mountain.  Reno, Nevada was named for him, as well as at least three other towns throughout the country.  There is a monument to Reno in Downtown Reno off of Virginia.