Jewkes Family History
Jewkes Name Meaning
English (Worcestershire): patronymic with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s from a pet form of the personal names Jukel Jokel which are from Breton Judicael and this one from Old Breton Iudicael. The Breton personal name is derived from iuth ‘lord’ with a suffix -ig + hael hail ‘generous bountiful’. In England the personal name was particularly common in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire and in districts where Bretons settled after the Norman Conquest. Compare Jewell .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022