English Explanatory Dictionary

Leake

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname.

Word forms

Leake Leakes

Etymology

* As an English but ultimately North Germanic surname, from Old Norse lœkr (“stream, brook”). The Norse word is found in many English place names, such as Leck in Lancashire, and the surname could have been from these names. Compare the variant Leach. * Also as an occupational English surname, from the noun leek.

Derived words

East Leake Lake Leake Leake County Leakesville Old Leake
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