Rasey
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Frequency: (218)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. English: unexplained. Compare Racy, Racey.
2. Possibly an altered spelling of Swiss German Rasi (see Rase 4) or of Dutch Rasy, a metonymic occupational name for someone who weighed out or measured corn, from Middle Dutch razier ‘corn measure’.
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