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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : metronymic from the Yiddish female personal name Raske, a pet form of Biblical Rachel + the eastern Slavic possessive suffix -in.
  • Dutch : from a reduced pet form of the personal name Erasmus (see Rasmus).

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