Drake

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Drake

  1. Lua error in Module:names at line 633: dot= and nodot= are no longer supported in Template:surname because a trailing period is no longer added by default; if you want it, add it explicitly after the template, originally a byname from Old English draca or Old Norse draki, both meaning “dragon”.
    1. Francis Drake (1540-1596), English sea captain, pirate, and explorer of the Elizabethan era.
  2. Lua error in Module:names at line 633: dot= and nodot= are no longer supported in Template:surname because a trailing period is no longer added by default; if you want it, add it explicitly after the template, anglicized from Drach, itself a Hiberno-Norman name English Drake.
  3. A male given name transferred from the surname.
    • 2004 Torey Hayden, Twilight Children, HarperCollins UK (2013), →ISBN, Chapter 4:
      Drake was not at all what I'd anticipated. His macho soap opera name had put me in mind of aristocrats or oversexed mallards.
  4. A town in New South Wales, Australia.
  5. A village in Saskatchewan, Canada.
  6. A ward of Plymouth, Devon, England; named for aqueduct Drake's Leat, itself for Francis Drake, Mayor of Plymouth at the time of its construction.
  7. A locale in the United States.
    1. A city in North Dakota; named for early settler Herman Drake.
    2. An unincorporated community in Arizona.
    3. An unincorporated community in Colorado.
    4. An unincorporated community in Illinois.
    5. An unincorporated community in Kentucky.
    6. An unincorporated community in Missouri; named for Missouri statesman Charles D. Drake.
    7. An unincorporated community in South Carolina.

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