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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : habitational name from any of the places called Radzyń in Poland.
  • Serbian, Croatian, and Slovenian : from the Old Slavic personal name Radin, which is derived from Old Slavic rad ‘merry’, ‘joyful’.

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