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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : unexplained. Compare Racy, Racey.
  • Possibly an altered spelling of Swiss German Rasi (see Rase 4) or of Dutch Rasy, a metonymic occupational name for someone who weighed out or measured corn, from Middle Dutch razier ‘corn measure’.

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