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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name from a place so named in Silesia, near Wrocław (Breslau).
  • German : from a short form of a Germanic personal name formed with rād, rāt ‘advice’, ‘counsel’.
  • Perhaps an altered spelling of the Dutch family name Raats, a variant of Raad.

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