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leake Name Meaning and History

  1. topographic name for someone who lived by a stream, from Old Norse lœkr ‘brook’. There are also a number of places named with this word--such as Leake in North Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, and Nottinghamshire, Leek in Staffordshire, and Leck in Lancashire--and the surname may also be from any of these. Compare southern English Leach 2.
  2. possibly also a metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of leeks, from Old English leac.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of leake Families in the US in 1920
Number of leake families
 39-76
 14-38		 1-13
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Leake family of Orillia Ontario dm2350 9
LEAKE females in DAYTON, OH 1856 and beyond mtmom33 0
Leake - Mo. /Ky. msdw2 17
Samuel Leake MStoffers9421 4
LEAKES IN VA. WILLIAM THAD LEAKE 14
Richard Leake East Palestine,Ohio BKColvin63 5
My Leake Lines Descendants of David Zenos LEAKE mamfamily_1 0
David Z Leake Linda A Stone 2
Leake Family of New York , Wisconsin. Nebraska68467 4
Elizabeth Leake m. Coleman Milam WyOkie 4
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