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Ras Name Meaning
Czech (Raš) and Polish (Ras): from a pet short form of any of various Slavic personal names with the first element rad- ‘joyful’ or raci- ‘to fight’.Spanish: from ras ‘level’ (ultimately from Latin radere ‘to scrape’); perhaps a topographic name for someone who lived on flat land.Catalan: topographic name for someone who lived on bare, barren land, from ras ‘shorn’, ‘bare’, ‘peeled’.French: from ras ‘bare’, ‘shorn’, ‘close-shaven’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived on bare or razed land, or a nickname for someone with closely cropped hair.Dutch: nickname for a nimble person, from ras ‘quick’, ‘swift’.Altered spelling of German Rass, from a Germanic personal name Rasso, or of South German and Swiss Räss, a nickname for someone cheeky or sharp, from Middle High German ræze ‘sharp’, ‘wild’, ‘caustic’.
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Name Distribution of Ras Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Ras families
 10 - 18  4 - 9 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Ras families
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14 - 26 5 - 13 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Ras families
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Ras Family Origin
Ras Immigration Information
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Ras Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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