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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (also Räck) : from a short form of a Germanic personal name, formed with rag-, from ragin ‘advice’, ‘counsel’.
  • German (also Räck) : nickname from the dialect word Rack(e) ‘crow’.

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