Yoke Family History

English (Middlesex): topographic name or a status name from Middle English yoke (Old English geoc) denoting a particular measure of land area hence ‘small estate or manor’. The surname would have denoted the holder of such an estate or someone who lived at a place called with this word.

A yoke was normally equivalent to about 50 or 60 acres. Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 郁 see Yu 10. Variant of Yock a surname of German origin.