Family name origins & meanings
- German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname for a quick or rash person from Middle High German, German rasch ‘quick’, ‘hot-headed’, ‘hasty’.
- German (of Slavic origin) : from a pet form of any of various Slavic personal names formed with rad- ‘joyful’ or rano ‘early’ as the first element.
- German : habitational name from any of numerous places so named, for example in Franconia.
- English : variant of Rash.
