Last Name NOKE

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Meaning Local: Atten oak, from residence beside the oak-tree. As with Nalder and Nash, teh final 'n' in the prefix 'atten' (at the) becomes the initial of the name proper. Nokes and Noaks merely represent a cluster of oak-trees. In the Registry of the UNiversity of Oxford this name is spelt KNokes, Nokes, and Nooke.
Origin English, Irish

Rank 127,948 (2000 US census) 80,483 (1990 US census)
Count 123 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 93.5%, or 115 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • undisclosed % as black,
  • undisclosed % as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0%, or 0 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • undisclosed % as two or more races, and
  • undisclosed % as Hispanic ethnic origin.


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