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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : occupational name for a counselor or nickname for a wise person, from Middle High German rāter ‘adviser’.
  • German : variant of Rathert.
  • German : habitational name for someone from a place called Rath (see Rath 3), or a habitational name from places named Räther and Räthern in northeastern Germany.

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