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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Serbian and Croatian (Ratković) : patronymic from the personal name Ratko, pet form of Rado, derived from Old Slavic rad ‘merry’, ‘joyful’.
  • Jewish (from Lithuania) : variant spelling of Rotkovich, a metronymic from the Yiddish female personal name Rodke, a pet form of Rode, of ultimate Czech origin.

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