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Updated: June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Old English : From the oak meadow

Boy name variations

How Popular Is The Name Oakes

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : topographic name, a plural variant of Oak.
  • Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Dubhdara ‘son of Dubhdara’, a personal name composed of the elements dubh ‘dark’ + dara(ch), genitive of dair ‘oak’, by translation of the main element of the Gaelic name.

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