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Raker

Updated: June 9, 2019
Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from a Germanic personal name, Raghar, composed of rag- ‘advice’ + hari, heri ‘army’.
  • Germanized spelling of Slovenian Rakar, occupational name for someone who caught and sold crayfish (see Rak).

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