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Surname Etymology and Meaning of BLAKE
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| A corruption of the British Ap Lake, from Ap, signifying from, or son, and Lake,--the son of Lake. The family went into Ireland with Strongbow, where the name became corrupted into Blake. Ap Lake was one of the knights of Arthur's Round Table. Source: An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names With an Essay on their Derivation and Import (1857). |
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