Duke Family History
Duke Name Meaning
English and Irish: from Middle English duk(e) ‘duke’
(from Old French duc, from Latin dux, genitive
ducis ‘leader’), applied as an occupational name for someone
who worked in the household of a duke, or as a nickname for someone
who gave himself airs and graces.English and Irish: possibly also
from the personal name Duke, a short form of Marmaduke,
a personal name said to be from Irish mael Maedoc ‘devotee
(mael, maol ‘bald’, ‘tonsured one’) of Maedoc’, a
personal name (M’Aodhóg) meaning ‘my little Aodh’,
borne by various early Irish saints, in particular a 6th-century abbot
of Clonmore and a 7th-century bishop of Ferns.Scottish:
compare the old Danish personal name Duk (Old Norse
Dukr).In some cases, possibly an
Americanized form of French Leduc or Spanish Duque.Possibly an Americanized spelling of Polish Duk, a
nickname from dukac ‘to stammer or falter’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Duke Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Duke families
 291 - 579  98 - 290 |
 1 - 97  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Duke families
|
62 - 121 21 - 61 |
1 - 20 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Duke census records
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Duke Family Origin
Duke Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Duke Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Duke Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Duke census records
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