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’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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