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The ike Surname

ike Name Meaning and History

  1. Japanese: ‘lake’. Though listed in the Shinsen shojiroku, this name is not common in the main Japanese islands and is found mostly in the Ryukyu Islands. The word ike is more usually found in compound names such as Ikeda.
  2. Possibly an Americanized spelling of German Eich.

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

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Distribution of ike Families in the US in 1920
Number of ike families
 8-13
 3-7		 1-2
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 17 - Messages: 57
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John Ike (1794-1882) ikemansr 0
Elsie Ike Richard Ike 5
George Elwood Ike - Morris County, N.J. Richard Ike 2
Lucas/Ike marriage Richard_I 0
Ike Family Barbara5664 9
P. Ike b. OH ca 1840 RichardCochrane71 0
Margaret (Barnes) Ike or Eich or Eyche Judith Vermilion 12
Jonathan Ike family of Pa. xkvfrye 0
Anderson W Ike's children debbystone1959 3
William Ike and Florence Labor zcatscat 0
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