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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Muslim : from a personal name based on Arabic rā’id ‘model’, ‘leader’, ‘pioneer’.
  • Dutch : metonymic occupational name for an adviser, counselor, or member of a town council, from raad ‘advice’, ‘counsel’.

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