Tracing the Rakowska Family Name

Records tie Rakowska closely to Rakowski. In origin, the name means “From Raków / crayfish”.

Related forms: Rakowsky. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. In Poland a woman of the Rakowski family is written Rakowska, the feminine ending of the same name.

Rakowska sounds close to Rogowska, so it can help to search both.

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