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First name origin & meaning:

Old English: Wet field

First name variations: Wakeley, Wakeman, Wakefield

Last name origin & meaning:

Northern English and Scottish: from the Old Norse byname Vakr meaning ‘wakeful’, ‘vigilant’ (from vaka ‘to remain awake’), or perhaps from a cognate Old English Waca (attested in place names such as Wakeford, Wakeham, and Wakeley).