Lakeman Family History
Lakeman Name Meaning
English: from Middle English lak(e) ‘stream’ (Old English lacu) or lake ‘lake’ (Old French lake Latin lacus) + man denoting a dweller by such a feature. Compare Lake . Dutch: variant of Lake with the addition of man ‘man’. Dutch: occupational name for someone who deals with laken ‘cloth’. Americanized form of North German Lakemann a cognate of 2 above.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022