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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : habitational name from a place on the Rhine near Koblenz, recorded in the earliest Latin documents as Bacaraca. The place name seems to be the same as that of Baccarat in the Vosges; both are of Celtic origin but unknown meaning.

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