What We Know About the Flake Surname

Flake is catalogued in Wikidata as a German last name. The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Flake with 4,326 bearers, at rank 7,676. That is enough to place it in the top 10,000 American surnames.

Surname origin

Local archives often hold baptisms and marriages that never reached online indexes. The meaning of Flake is not given in the reference works we use for these short pages; a full report traces it from your own family's records.

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Arms associated with the name

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