Dukes (surname)

Dukes
Family name
Meaning	derived from Son or Descendant of Duke, meaning Leader
Region of origin	England
Related names	Duke, Dukeson
Footnotes: [1][2]

Dukes is a patronymic form of the surname Duke that originated in medieval England, of Anglo-Norman origin.^[3] 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.^[4] It is an uncommon name; the 2000 United States Census showed it to be the 1577th most popular surname,^[5] while the United Kingdom Census of that same year showed it to be the 3928th most popular.^[6]

Contents 1 Earliest usage 2 People with the surname Dukes 3 See also 4 References

Earliest usage

The earliest recorded uses of the surname include:

Ralph or Radulphus Dux in 1199, Buckinghamshire,^[7]

Arnold de Dukes in 1200, Cambridgeshire,^[8]

Henry or Henricus Dukes in 1214, Warwickshire.^[9]

People with the surname Dukes

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
• 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

• Ashley Dukes (1885–1959), English playwright
• 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

Other people

• Alan Dukes, Irish politician
• Chad Dukes (radio personality), co-host of the Big O and Dukes Show
• Cuthbert Dukes (1890–1977), English pathologist
• Leopold Dukes (1810–1891), Hungarian historian of Jewish literature
• Sir Paul Dukes (1889–1967), English MI6 officer and journalist
• Ramsey Dukes, pseudonym of occultist Lionel Snell

Fictional characters

• Fred J. Dukes, Marvel Comics supervillain
• Oliver Dukes, the primary antagonist in Maurice Walsh's 1950 novel Trouble in the Glen and 1954 film adaptation
• Tommy Dukes, an intellectual character in D.H. Lawrence's 1928 novel Lady Chatterley's Lover

See also

• Duke (surname)
• Duke (disambiguation)

References

• [1]
• [2]
• [3]
• [4]

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