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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : nickname from Middle High German recke ‘outlaw’ or ‘fighter’.
  • North German and Westphalian : from Middle Low German recke ‘marsh’, ‘waterlogged ground’, hence a topographic name, or a habitational name from a place named with this term.

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