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Rakow Name Study

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Surnames/tags: Rakow Rackow Pomerania
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About the Project

The Rakow Name Study project serves as a collaborative platform to collect information on the Rakow name. The hope is that other researchers like you will join the study to help make it a valuable reference point for other genealogists who are researching or have an interest in the Rakow name.

As a One Name Study, this project is not limited to persons who are related biologically. Individual studies can be used to branch out the research into specific methods and areas of interest, such as geographically (England Rakow's), by time period (18th Century Rakow's), or by topic (Rakow DNA, Rakow Occupations, Rakow Statistics). These studies may also include a number of family branches which have no immediate link with each other. Some researchers may even be motivated to go beyond the profile identification and research stage to compile fully sourced, single-family histories of some of the families they discover through this name study project.

Also see the related surnames and surname variants.

How to Join

To join the Rakow Name Study, first start out by browsing our current research pages to see if there is a specific study ongoing that fits your interests. If so, feel free to add your name to the Membership list below, post an introduction comment on the specific team page, and then dive right in!

If a research page does not yet exist for your particular area of interest, please contact the Name Study Coordinator: Marcia (Bonnet) Benjamin for assistance.

... ... ... is a member of the Rakow Name Study Project.

Once you are ready to go, you can also show your project affiliation with the ONS Member Sticker:

{{Member|ONS|name=Rakow}}

Surname Origins

According to the Dictionary of American Family Names the surname Rakow hails originally from East Germany.[1] According to the same book, Rakow is a habitational name, which means it relates to a place, in this case, a German village, near Grimmen, in Süderholz, municipality currently part of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern or Mecklenburg–Western Pomerania, Germany.[2][3] By the same logic one should possibly include Raków, in Poland as well.[4]

Rakow Around the World

Websites such as Forbears and Surnam.es, currently show the United States as the country with the highest incidence of Rakow as a surname followed by Germany and England.[5][6]

Research Pages

Here are some of the current research pages included in the study. I'll be working on them, and could use your help!

Membership

Related Surnames and Surname Variants

Sources

  1. ↑ Hanks, Patrick. Dictionary of American Family Names. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
  2. ↑ Süderholz Wikipedia Article
  3. ↑ Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Wikipedia Article
  4. ↑ Raków, Poland Wikipedia Article
  5. ↑ Rakow Surname on Forbears
  6. ↑ https://surnam.es/rakow-surname Rakow Surname on Surnam.es]




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