Oak Family History
- Oak Name Meaning
- English: topographic name for someone who lived near an oak tree or in an oak wood, from Middle English oke ‘oak’, also used in the singular in a collective sense. In some cases the surname may be a habitational name from minor places named with this word, such as Oake in Somerset. It is possible that it was sometimes also used as a nickname for someone ‘as strong as oak’. Indian (Maharashtra): Hindu (Brahman) name of unknown meaning.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 117,294 Historical Documents with Oak on Ancestry
- 72,391 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 12,465 Census and Voter Lists
- 9,476 Military Records
- 1,609 Immigration Records
- 21,353 Member Trees
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Number of Oak families
 29 - 56  10 - 28 |
 1 - 9  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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