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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from a pet form of a Germanic name, Ragizo, derived from compound names formed with rag- ‘advice’ as the first element, or from a Slavic personal name.
  • German : nickname from Middle High German reiz(z)el ‘bait’ (for fowling).

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