Ras Family History
Ras Name Meaning
Dutch: from the ancient Germanic personal name Razo a derivative of compound names with the first element rād ‘counsel’. Polish (Raś) and Czech (Raš): from a short form of any of various Slavic personal names with the first element rad ‘merry glad’ or rat ‘battle’ especially Polish Radosław and Czech Radoslav. The homonymous Sorbian surname Raš is found in Germanized forms only (see Rasch and Rasche ). Compare Rash . German: variant of Rase . French: nickname for someone with closely cropped hair from Old French rasé ‘shaven’ (from Latin rasus). Catalan and southern French: topographic name for someone who lived on bare barren land from Catalan and Occitan ras ‘shorn bare peeled’. Spanish: from ras ‘level’ (ultimately from Latin radere ‘to scrape’) perhaps a topographic name for someone who lived on flat land.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022