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Duke (surname)
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Duke
Family name
Meaning
"leader"; possibly derived from "follower of Maedoc"
Region of origin
England, Ireland
Related names
Dukes
Footnotes: Frequency Comparisons:[1]
Duke is a surname meaning 'the leader'[2] or 'son of Marmaduke'.[1] It is the 856th most common surname in the United States.[1]
Contents
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1 Etymology
2 Dukes
2.1 Earliest usage
3 Family motto
4 History
5 Some noteworthy people of the Duke name
6 Some noteworthy people of the Dukes name
7 See also
8 References
Etymology[edit]
The first is that the surname Duke and its variant, Dukes, are both derived from the various Middle English words duc, duk, and douc, which all came from the Old French word "duc." This ultimately stemmed from the Latin dux, meaning "leader," and is a derivative of ducere, "to lead." The surname was evidently acquired by someone who was looked upon as a leader, not denoting one of noble birth since many captains or military leaders were titled landholders who would have taken their last names from their estates. The surname Dukes translates literally as "Duke's son."[3]
Alternatively, it has been suggested by scholars that the surname is simply a shortened form of Marmaduke, which is from the Irish Maelmaedoc, meaning 'servant of Maedoc.' St Maedoc was a Christian missionary in 7th Century Wales and Ireland. As a Plantation surname, it can be found primarily in east Ulster and has been Gaelicised as Diúc.[4]
References date back to the late Twelfth century, with Herbert le Duc, a member of the Knights Templar, using the Gallicized version of the name. From 1190–1191, Roger le Duc was Sheriff of London, and three generations of his family succeeded him in this office. The Pipe rolls for Berkshire refer to Adam Duke in the year 1198, and in 1214 one Henry Dukes is recorded in the Curia Regis rolls for Warwickshire.[2]
Dukes[edit]
Dukes
Family name
Meaning
derived from Son or Descendant of Duke, meaning Leader
Region of origin
England
Related names
Duke, Dukeson
Footnotes: Frequency Comparisons:[5]
Dukes is a patronymic form of the surname Duke that originated in medieval England, of Anglo-Norman origin.[6] The meaning is derived from son or descendant of Duke, which was originally recorded le Duc, a term used to mean "leader" before it became associated with a specific rank of the nobility.[6] It is an uncommon name; the 2000 United States Census showed it to be the 1,577th most popular surname,[7] while the United Kingdom Census of that same year showed it to be the 1,749th most popular.[1]
Earliest usage[edit]
The earliest recorded uses of the surname include:
Ralph or Radulphus Dux in 1199, Buckinghamshire,[6]
Arnold de Dukes in 1200, Cambridgeshire,[8]
Henry or Henricus Dukes in 1214, Warwickshire.[9]
Family motto[edit]
The Duke family uses the motto Gradatim vincimus which translates as "We conquer by degrees." The Dukes family motto is Constanter, meaning "With constancy." [10][better source needed]
History[edit]
Records indicate nameholders came to England during and in the decades following the Norman Conquest, but its usage became more common in the reign of Richard I and especially in the time of King John. In Queen Elizabeth’s long reign the surname often appeared among the rolls of her ennobled subjects who were prominently mentioned in the annals of her time.
Duke families were also found very early in Ireland. According to O’Hart’s Irish Pedigrees, Vol. II, some were residing in County Westmeath in the Fifteenth century. The will of one William Duke, of Kyllenagh, Kildare, recorded 1551, is found in the records at Dublin. After this early date the family name appears with more or less variation in form, and with increasing frequency upon the pages of the Irish Public Records. Hanna, in his Scotch-Irish Families of Ulster, estimates that there were in 1890 within the province of Ulster 268 persons bearing the name Duke.
Thus the Dukes were one of the ancient families of England and of Ireland. They are among the earliest recorded by Burke in his pedigrees of the nobility and of the landed gentry. The first mention made of them by this authority was the aforementioned Roger le Duc, sheriff of London. The names of Duke and Dukes have been well-established in the Americas, with one of the earliest arrivals to New England being one Captain Edward Duke in 1634. Humphrey Dukes sailed to Barbados with his wife and servants in 1630.
Some noteworthy people of the Duke name[edit]
Annie Duke (born 1965), American poker player
Basil W. Duke, Confederate general
Benjamin Newton Duke, (1855-1929) American tobacco philanthropist
Bill Duke (born 1943), African-American actor and director
Charles Moss Duke, Jr. (born 1935), American astronaut
David Duke (born 1950), American politician and white-nationalist activist
David Duke, (born 1978), Scottish footballer
Donald Duke, former governor of Nigeria
Doris Duke (1912–1993), American philanthropist
Doris Duke, African-American soul singer
Edmund Duke (1563–1590), English Catholic martyr
Geoff Duke, English champion road racer
George Duke (1946–2013), African-American musician
George Duke (footballer) (1920–1988), English footballer
Henry Duke, 1st Baron Merrivale, Judge and Chief Secretary for Ireland 1916-18
James A. Duke (born 1929), American botanist
James Buchanan Duke (1856–1925), American entrepreneur and philanthropist
James "Red" Duke (1928–2015), American surgeon
Jas H. Duke (1939–1992), Australian writer
Jessamyn Duke (born 1986), American mixed martial artist
John Woods Duke (1899–1984), American composer and pianist
Ken Duke (born 1969), American golfer
Lynne Duke (1956–2013), American journalist and writer
Matt Duke, English footballer
Mike Duke, American business executive
Norm Duke, American bowler
Patty Duke (1946-2016), American actor
P. J. Duke, (1925–1950) former Cavan Gaelic Footballer
Raoul Duke, alter-ego to Hunter S. Thompson, used as both a character and a pen name
Robert Duke, songwriter pseudonym of Joe Meek
Robin Duke, Canadian actress and comedian
Steve Duke, American saxophonist
Vernon Duke, Russian composer and songwriter
Washington Duke (1820–1905), American entrepreneur
Wesley Duke, former American football player
William Duke, Scottish lieutenant governor of Bengal
Zach Duke, American baseball player
Fictional characters
Bo and Luke Duke, the good ol' boys of Hazzard County
Daisy Duke
Edmund Duke (StarCraft)
Fred J. Dukes, Marvel Comics supervillain
Jesse Duke
Tommy Dukes, an intellectual character in D.H. Lawrence's 1928 novel Lady Chatterley's Lover
Oliver Dukes, the primary antagonist in Maurice Walsh's 1950 novel Trouble in the Glen and 1954 film adaptation
Some noteworthy people of the Dukes name[edit]
Athletes
Chad Dukes (American football), former NFL and Arena Football player
Derrick Dukes, African-American wrestler
Elijah Dukes, African-American baseball player
Gordon Dukes (1888–1966), American track and field athlete
Harry Dukes (1912–1988), English footballer
Jamie Dukes, former professional football player and NFL Network analyst
Mike Dukes (1936–2008), American football player
Tom Dukes, former American baseball player
Walter Dukes (1930–2001), African-American basketball player
Artists and performers
Ben Dukes, American independent Country music singer
David Dukes (1945–2000), American stage and TV actor
Joanna Dukes, English actress
Kevin Dukes, American guitarist
Rob Dukes, lead singer for American metal band Exodus
Carol Muske-Dukes, American author and poet
Daragh Dukes, musician and producer of Irish rock band Headgear
Literature
Leopold Dukes (1810–1891), Hungarian historian of Jewish literature
Ashley Dukes (1885–1959), English playwright
Medicine
Cuthbert Dukes (1890–1977), English pathologist
Politicians
Alan Dukes (born 1945), Irish politician
Bill J. Dukes, American politician
Other people
Sir Paul Dukes (1889–1967), English journalist and MI6 officer
Chad Dukes (radio personality), co-host of the Big O and Dukes Show
Ramsey Dukes, pseudonym of occultist Lionel Snell
See also[edit]
Duke (disambiguation)
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b c d "Duke Surname Meaning and Distribution". forebears.co.uk. Retrieved 23 January 2014
^ Jump up to: a b "Duke Name Meaning & Duke Family History at Ancestry.com". Retrieved 2013-06-02.
Jump up ^ "Duke Family Crest and History". Retrieved 2013-06-02.
Jump up ^ "Surname Database: Duke Last Name Origin". Retrieved 2013-06-02.
Jump up ^ "Dukes Surname Meaning and Distribution". forebears.co.uk. Retrieved 21 January 2014
^ Jump up to: a b c http://www.martinstown.co.uk/WEBSITE/DUKE/frames.htm
Jump up ^ namenum.com
Jump up ^ http://www.martinstown.co.uk/WEBSITE/DUKE/history3.htm
Jump up ^ sourced from the Curia Regis Rolls of Warwickshire[dead link]
Jump up ^ http://www.heraldryclipart.com/d.html
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