First name origins & meanings:
- Latin: Dragon
- German: Male swan
First name variations: Drago, Draco Last name origins & meanings:
- English: from the Old English byname Draca, meaning
‘snake’ or ‘dragon’, Middle English Drake, or sometimes from
the Old Norse cognate Draki. Both are common bynames and, less
frequently, personal names. Both the Old English and the Old Norse
forms are from Latin draco ‘snake’, ‘monster’ (see
Dragon).
- English and Dutch: from Middle English
drake, Middle Dutch drāke ‘male duck’ (from Middle
Low German andrake), hence a nickname for someone with some
fancied resemblance to a drake, or perhaps a habitational name for
someone who lived at a house distinguished by the sign of a
drake.
- North German: nickname from Low German drake
‘dragon’ (see Drach 1).
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