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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from the Norman personal name Raher, composed of the Germanic elements rad ‘counsel’, ‘advice’ + hari, heri ‘army’.
  • French : occupational name for a barber, Old French raier (from rère ‘to shave’).

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