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oakes Name Meaning and History

  1. English: topographic name, a plural variant of Oak.
  2. Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Dubhdara ‘son of Dubhdara’, a personal name composed of the elements dubh ‘dark’ + dara(ch), genitive of dair ‘oak’, by translation of the main element of the Gaelic name.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of oakes Families in the US in 1920
Number of oakes families
 91-179
 31-90		 1-30
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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