About the Yorke Surname

It is easy to miss Yorke in an index if you only search for York. The name is usually explained as “From the city of York”.

• About 1,579 people in the United States were recorded as Yorke in 2010, placing it 17,745 on the national list.
• The same family of names includes Yorks and Yourk.
• Yorke adds “e” to York, a small change that crept in as the name was written down.
• Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them.

Yorke coat of arms

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