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Updated August 8, 2024

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Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : status name for a rabbi, from Polish, Ukrainian, and Belorussian rabin ‘rabbi’ (ultimately from Hebrew rav).
  • French : diminutive of Raba.

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