as a First Name
Mainly U.S.: transferred use of the surname, which is derived in part from the Old English byname Draca ‘snake, dragon’ (which survived into the Middle Ages as a given name), and in part from Middle English drake ‘male duck’ (imported from Middle Low German) used as a nickname. Use as a given name is likely to have originated in honour of the English explorer Sir Francis Drake (?1540–96).
| 3,961st in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 2,744
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 23,322
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- Hawaii
- has the most people named Drake per capita
- 2010
- marked the height of its popularity
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