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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : from Middle Dutch rape ‘turnip’; a metonymic occupational name for a turnip grower, or perhaps a derisory nickname.
  • German : variant of Raab (see Rabe).
  • North German : from Middle Low German rap ‘fast’.

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