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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : metonymic occupational name for a maker of razors or a barber, from Old French rasor, rasur ‘razor’.
  • Humanist Latinized form of the German occupational name Bartscherer ‘barber’ (literally ‘beard cutter’), recorded as early as the 14th century.

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