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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Germanized or Americanized spelling of Serbian Radak, a patronymic from the old personal name Radak, a pet form of Rado, a short form of any of various compound Slavic personal names, such as Radoslav or Radovan, based on the Old Slavic element rad ‘glad’.

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