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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Czech : from a dialect variant of Czech rákos, a topographic name for someone who lived by a reedbed, a nickname for a tall, slender person, or a metonymic occupational name for a basketmaker, from rákos in the sense of cane or wickerwork.
  • Greek : from the personal name Rok(k)os, Greek form of Italian Rocco.

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