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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : occupational name from Hebrew korach ‘bookbinder’.
  • Serbian and Croatian (Korać) : nickname from korać ‘horseshoe hammer’, from Greek korakion, literally ‘raven’.

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