Rawe Family History
Rawe Name Meaning
English: from Middle English rawe (Old English rāw) ‘row’. The surname may be topographic signifying someone who lived by a hedgerow or in a row of houses in a street or habitational signifying someone who lived in a place so named such as Raw in Fylingdales (North Yorkshire). See also Rew and Rowe . English: nickname from Middle English raw(e) ‘raw (of a youth) ignorant unskilled’. English: from the Middle English personal name Raw a variant of Ralph . Compare Rawson and its rhyming pet forms Daw and Haw . North German: variant of Rave .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022