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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : possibly a habitational name from a place so called in Moravia.
  • German : possibly from Middle High German trachte ‘catch (of fish)’.
  • German : in northern Germany, a topographic name from dar achten ‘there, at the back’.

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