Updated June 9, 2019

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Family name origins & meanings

  • 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.