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dykes Name Meaning and History

English and Scottish: variant of Dyke. The Scottish name may also derive in part from any of several places named Dykes, although Black singles out one in the barony of Avondale or Strathaven in Lanarkshire.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the dykes family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of dykes Families in the US in 1920
Number of dykes families
 79-156
 27-78		 1-26
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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