Drakes Family History
Drakes Name Meaning
English: variant of Drake with post-medieval excrescent -s. English: habitational name from Drax (Yorkshire). The placename probably derives from Old English dræg ‘portage place where boats are dragged’ or dræg ‘drag net’ influenced by Old Norse drag ‘portage’ with a plural drages being shortened to drags Drax. In some cases perhaps an Americanized form of some similar (like-sounding) cognate in some other language.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022