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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (of Slavic origin) : from Raczak, a pet form of Slavic personal names with the first element rad- ‘joyful’, for example Radoslav; or, according to another opinion, a Germanized form of Slavic radzak ‘adviser’.

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