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Wilkes Name Meaning
English: patronymic from Wilk.Frisian: from a pet
form of the personal name Will.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Wilkes Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Wilkes families
 89 - 175  30 - 88 |
 1 - 29  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Wilkes families
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777 - 1,552 260 - 776 |
1 - 259 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Wilkes families
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11 - 19 4 - 10 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Wilkes Family Origin
Wilkes Immigration Information
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Wilkes Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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