Drake Family History
Drake Name Meaning
English: from the Old English byname Draca, meaning
‘snake’ or ‘dragon’, Middle English Drake, or sometimes from
the Old Norse cognate Draki. Both are common bynames and, less
frequently, personal names. Both the Old English and the Old Norse
forms are from Latin draco ‘snake’, ‘monster’ (see
Dragon).English and Dutch: from Middle English
drake, Middle Dutch drake ‘male duck’ (from Middle
Low German andrake), hence a nickname for someone with some
fancied resemblance to a drake, or perhaps a habitational name for
someone who lived at a house distinguished by the sign of a
drake.North German: nickname from Low German drake
‘dragon’ (see Drach 1).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Drake Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Drake families
 444 - 885  149 - 443 |
 1 - 148  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Drake families
|
1,181 - 2,359 394 - 1,180 |
1 - 393 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Drake families
|
27 - 52 10 - 26 |
1 - 9 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Drake Family Origin
Drake Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Drake
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Drake Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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