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The DRAKE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 59,055 506 0.022 219
United States (1880 census) 20,458 249 0.041 409
Change since 1880 +38597 -257 -0.019 -190
Other Countries
Australia 1,677 969 0.01 103
United Kingdom 8,705 697 0.019 190
Top States for DRAKE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 4,584 701 0.014 135
Texas 4,307 582 0.021 207
Ohio 3,402 339 0.030 300
New York 3,216 496 0.017 169
Florida 3,189 605 0.020 200
Top States for DRAKE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Maine 580 402 0.045 455
Alabama 1,696 417 0.038 381
Idaho 459 314 0.035 355
Kentucky 1,388 435 0.034 343
Oklahoma 1,116 400 0.032 323

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called DRAKE live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called DRAKE represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called DRAKE in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a DRAKE by picking someone at random in Maine than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of DRAKE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Nickname

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the DRAKE surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the DRAKE surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of DRAKE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 880 1.49
White (Hispanic) 833 1.41
Native American/Alaskan 378 0.64
Asian/Pacific 242 0.41
White (Caucasian) 48,331 81.84
Black/African American 8,392 14.21

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the DRAKE surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of DRAKE in historical publications

(origin: Gaelic.) Drak, a drake; drac, a route, a way, a footstep; one who draws or leads, a leader.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


DRAKE. Not from the waterfowl, but from A-Sax. di'ctca (Latin rywctf,) a dragon. Le Dratjun, the Anglo-Norman form, occurs in the H.R., but the nearest approach to this that I have seen in modern times is Drago, a name which existed at Ely about a century since. Several families of Drake bear as arms the wyvern, or two-legged dragon ; and it is worthy of remark that in

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to DRAKE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as DRAKE.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for DRAKE

The following words are slight variants of DRAKE that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.