Oakes Name Meaning
English: topographic name, a plural variant of Oak.
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Dubhdara ‘son of Dubhdara’, a personal name composed of the elements dubh ‘dark’ + dara(ch), genitive of dair ‘oak’, by translation of the main element of the Gaelic name.
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Reuben Lavatis Benjamin Franklin Oakes, father