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DRAKE
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English
English : from the Old English byname Draca, meaning ‘snake’ or ‘dragon’, Middle English Drake, or sometimes from the Old Norse cognate Draki. Both are common bynames and, less frequently, personal names. Both the Old English and the Old Norse forms are from Latin draco ‘snake’, ‘monster’ (see Dragon).English and Dutch : from Middle English drake, Middle Dutch drÄke ‘male duck’ (from Middle Low German andrake), hence a nickname for someone with some fancied resemblance to a drake, or perhaps a habitational name for someone who lived at a house distinguished by the sign of a drake.North German : nickname from Low German drake ‘dragon’ (see Drach 1).
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American, Anglo, Australian, British, Chinese, Christian, English, German, Greek, Indian, Latin
Dragon; Male Duck; Snake
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Greek
Dragon.
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American, Anglo, British, English
Dragon; Modern Variant of Drake
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English
English surname transferred to forename use, having several possible origins: 1) from the byname Draca, DRAKE means "snake" or "dragon." 2) from Middle English drake, meaning "male duck." 3) from Old Norse Draki, meaning "snake" or "monster."Â
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English (chiefly East Anglia)
English (chiefly East Anglia) : nickname for a vain or showy person, from Middle English scheldrake, a type of brightly colored duck (from the East Anglian dialect term scheld ‘variegated’ + drake ‘male duck’).
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Christian & English(British/American/Australian)
Dragon
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American, Anglo, British, English
Dragon; Modern Variant of Drake
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English
English : habitational name from Raleigh in Devon, recorded in Domesday Book as Radeleia, from Old English rēad ‘red’ + lēah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’.The English explorer Sir Walter Raleigh (1554–1618) was born in Hayes Barton, Devon, into a family of Devon gentry. He was related to most of the West Country’s important families, including that of Sir Francis Drake. His half-brother was the explorer Sir Humphrey Gilbert. In 1578 Raleigh was granted a patent to explore and colonize “unknown lands†in America.
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English
English : variant of Drake.In some cases, perhaps an Americanized form of a like-sounding cognate in some other language.
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English Greek American
Dragon.
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English (West Midlands)
English (West Midlands) : probably a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place.
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Tamil
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Lover of God
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Indian
The day of the full Moon in the Hindu month of Phaalgun which falls between february and march, Born in Falgun
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English
English : habitational name from places in Hampshire and Shropshire named Elson. The former is named from the Old English personal name Æ{dh}elswī{dh} (composed of the elements æ{dh}el ‘noble’ + swī{dh} ‘strong’) + Old English tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’; the latter from the genitive case of the Old English personal name Elli (see Ellington) + Old English tūn ‘settlement’ or dūn ‘hill’.English : variant spelling of Ellson.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : patronymic from the Yiddish male personal name Elye, from Hebrew Eliyahu ‘Elijah’ (see Elias).
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American, Anglo, Australian, British, English
From the Oak Tree Meadow
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Arabic, Muslim, Pashtun
Brave
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American, Australian, Vietnamese
In Place of; Willow Tree
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Indian
Commander of banu-israils
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Tamil
Having no enemy
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Hindu, Indian, Sindhi, Tamil
Goddess Parvati; Daughter of the Hills
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Teutonic
Sharp as a spear.
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n.
Wild oats, brome grass, or darnel grass; -- called also drawk, dravick, and drank.
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A dragon.
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The drake fly.
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A drake; the male of Anas boschas.
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A small piece of artillery.
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The male of the duck kind.
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A flat stone so thrown along the surface of water as to skip from point to point before it sinks; also, the sport of so throwing stones; -- sometimes called ducks and drakes.
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Wild oats, or darnel grass. See Drake a plant.