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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from a Germanic personal name, Recho, a shortened form of a personal name composed with rāhha ‘revenge’.
  • German : nickname for someone who was timid or fleet of foot, from Middle High German rēch ‘roe deer’. Compare Reh.
  • German : habitational name from a place near Koblenz called Rech.

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