Dykes Family History
Dykes Name Meaning
English and Scottish: variant of Dyke. The Scottish name may
also derive in part from any of several places named Dykes, although
Black singles out one in the barony of Avondale or Strathaven in
Lanarkshire.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Dykes Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Dykes families
 147 - 292  50 - 146 |
 1 - 49  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Dykes families
|
161 - 319 54 - 160 |
1 - 53 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Dykes Family Origin
Dykes Emigration Information (US)
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Dykes Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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