Northern Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó
Dhubhdarach or Mac Dhubhdarach ‘descendant (or son) of
Dubhdarach’, a personal name meaning ‘black one of the oak
tree’. For this reason it has sometimes been Anglicized as
Oakes.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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