as a Last Name
- 1,323
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Oak
Meaning & Origins
English: topographic name for someone who lived near an oak tree or in an oak wood, from Middle English oke ‘oak’, also used in the singular in a collective sense. In some cases the surname may be a habitational name from minor places named with this word, such as Oake in Somerset. It is possible that it was sometimes also used as a nickname for someone ‘as strong as oak’.
| 20,985th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 1,323
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- North Dakota
- has the most people named Oak per capita
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