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kates Name Meaning and History

  1. variant spelling of Kattes, patronymic from the personal name Kat(t)e (see Katt 1).
  2. from the possessive case of kat ‘cat’ as a nickname (see Katt 2).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of kates Families in the US in 1920
Number of kates families
 30-57
 11-29		 1-10
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 53 - Messages: 135
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William Henry Kates Marie Johannsen 4
William H. Kates of PA Denisetk 4
Annie Kates Boyd: GA>MI>AL cherylm66 1
Kates of NJ Andrea Carvell 2
Obit; Zell R. Kates woodsman1953 0
Kates-Keats 14keats 0
Kates family Australia Bel_Tsap 0
ROOSEVELT KATES DOROTHY M.KATES-MAPPS 7
Bessie-Foster-Sipple BarbaraPusey33 0
maria kates and ashall baker wcabe1 0
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