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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (mainly Berkshire) : apparently a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place, which would derive its name from Old English hrēac ‘mound’ (compare Rackham) or hraca ‘throat’, ‘gulley’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.

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