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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : from a personal name composed of the Germanic elements rād ‘counsel’ + heri, hari ‘army’.
  • North German : topographic name from Middle Low German redder ‘path or space between two hedges’, or a habitational name from a place near Schleswig named with this word.

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