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).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 4,574,762 Historical Documents with Drake on Ancestry
- 825,034 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 550,469 Census and Voter Lists
- 96,242 Military Records
- 42,565 Immigration Records
- 3,060,452 Member Trees
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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
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27 - 52 10 - 26 |
1 - 9 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Drake census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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