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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : topographic name from any of several swamps so named.
  • German : from the Low German and Frisian personal name Radde, a short form of any of the various Germanic personal names formed with rād, rāt ‘counsel’, ‘advice’, for example Radebert, Radebold.

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