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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : nickname for someone who was fleet of foot or slender and graceful, from Middle Low German ‘roe deer’ + been ‘bone’, ‘leg’.
  • German : from the personal name Rachwin, a compound of rahha ‘revenge’ + wini ‘friend’.

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