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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Origin uncertain. Possibly an English habitational name from a lost or unidentifed place.
  • Possibly a variant spelling of South German Rechle, a variant of the occupational name Recher, for someone who worked with a rake (Middle High German reche).

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