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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from Middle High German trache, drache ‘dragon’, hence probably a habitational name for someone who lived at a house distinguished by the sign of a dragon, or a nickname for someone with a fierce or fiery temperament.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental adoption of 1.
  • Polish : possibly of German origin (see 1).

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