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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : topographic name for someone living by a prominent oak tree, from Middle English ake ‘oak’, or a habitational name from the village of Aike, near Lockington, East Yorkshire, which is named with Old English āc ‘oak’, dative āce ‘(place at) the oak tree’.

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