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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Possibly an altered spelling of the French family name Rasset, from a pet form of a Germanic personal name formed with rād, rāt ‘counsel’, ‘advice’.
  • A Rasset or Racet, from Normandy, France, is documented in Quebec City in 1678.

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