English: topographic name from Middle English ragge ‘stone’
+ land ‘land’, or a habitational name from a place named
Ragland Coppice, in Corsley, Wiltshire, which is named with the local
dialect word rag ‘small piece of woodland’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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