Origin of the name Dragatski

The name Dragatski (Dragatsky, Dragatskij, Drogatskij, Dragatser, Dragutsky and others) came from the name of the shtetl Dragats or Dragatse located in Kovno region. This name occurs predominantly in Lithuania and Latvia.

First mentionings of people having this name are encountered in the first half of the 19-th century in Kovno and Vilno gubernias. Based on the concentration of places of residence of the Dragatski family at that time, it may be assumed that one talks either about one big family or several related families who left Dragats in the end of the 18-th - begining of the 19-th centuries.