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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Americanized spelling of Old Czech or Polish Rataj, an occupational term for a plowman.
  • German : habitational name from a place called Ratay or Rattey, in Mecklenburg and near Posen (Polish Poznań).

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