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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant of Raphael.
  • German : nickname for someone who was loud or indiscreet, a blabbermouth, from Middle High German raffeln ‘to be noisy’, ‘to scold’.
  • German : from an unexplained personal name, Raffo. Compare Raff.

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