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fork Name Meaning and History

Scottish and Irish: possibly an Anglicized form of Irish Gaelic Ó Gabhlaigh ‘descendant of Gabhalach’, from gabhlach ‘forked’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The fork name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the fork family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of fork Families in the US in 1920
Number of fork families
 10-17
 4-9		 1-3
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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