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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : topographic name for someone who lived near a heap of some kind, from Middle English reke ‘stack’, ‘heap’.
  • German : from Radeke, a pet form of a Germanic personal name formed with rād ‘advice’, ‘counsel’.
  • Altered spelling of German Reeck.

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