The yates Surname

yates Name Meaning and History

English: from Middle English yates ‘gates’, plural of yate, Old English geat ‘gate’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived near the gates of a walled town, or a metonymic occupational name for a gatekeeper.

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The yates name in History

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yates Family Facts

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Distribution of yates Families in the US in 1920

Number of yates families

284-566

95-283

1-94

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YATES, YEATES, YEATS and BRION, BRIAN, BRYON, BRIEN	glauderbach	0
Yates of Yorkshire England	Edna (Hawkins) Chambers	1
Yates/Dobson/? Middlesex, UK	mesue21	0
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Photograph of Raymond and Opal Yates, ca. 1957	sunnybeaches4me	4
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John and Ellen Yates 1870 Illinois census	BILSUE	1
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