Last name origins & meanings:
- Eastern German: from Sorbian, Polish, Czech, and Slovak rak ‘crab’,
presumably applied as a nickname or possibly as a metonymic
occupational name for someone who sold shellfish.
- German: nickname
from Middle High German rac ‘taut’, ‘stretched’; ‘busy’,
‘free’.
- German: from a short form of any of various personal names
beginning with Rac-.
- Shortened form of Dutch
van Raak, a habitational name from any of various places named
De Raak.
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