DRAKE

(origin: Gaelic.) Drak, a drake; drac, a route, a way, a footstep; one who draws or leads, a leader.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.

DRAKE. Not from the waterfowl, but from A-Sax. di'ctca (Latin rywctf,) a dragon. Le Dratjun, the Anglo-Norman form, occurs in the H.R., but the nearest approach to this that I have seen in modern times is Drago, a name which existed at Ely about a century since. Several families of Drake bear as arms the wyvern, or two-legged dragon ; and it is worthy of remark that in

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.