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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Swiss German : from a short form of a Germanic personal name derived from Gothic hrukjan ‘to crow’ or related to Middle High German rōhen ‘to roar’, ‘cry (in battle)’, probably originally a byname for a warrior (as the name may also be cognate with Gothic hrotheigs ‘victorious’).

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