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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : possibly from an old Germanic personal name, Rac(c)o.
  • Possibly an altered spelling of the French family name Racaud, from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements rac-, short form of ragin ‘counsel’, ‘advice’ + waldan ‘ruler’, or a habitational name from places so named in Allier and Dordogne.

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