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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Old English : Wet field

Boy name variations

Wakefield

Wakefield

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Wake

Wake

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Wakeley

Wakeley

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Family name origins & meanings

  • English : occupational name for a watchman, from Middle English wake ‘watch’, ‘vigil’ + man ‘man’. This was the title of the mayor of Ripon in West Yorkshire until the 16th century.

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