Drake

Origin
Anglo-Saxon
Gender
Masculine

Gender: Masculine
Origin: Anglo-Saxon/Latin
Meaning: “dragon.”
(DRAKE)

The name comes from the Anglo-Saxon personal name Draca meaning “dragon”, it may have been an Anglo-Saxon form of the Latin male name Draco. The name went out of usage after the Norman Conquest and was only recently revived.

It is currently the 199th most popular male name in the United States, (2010).

Source

  1. http://www.behindthename.com/name/drake
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