First name content excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to 30,000 Baby Names © 2005 by Marcia Layton Turner. Buy this book online or call 1-800-253-6476.
Last name content copyright © 2006 Patrick Hanks.
Last name origin & meaning:
English: topographic name for someone who lived on a patch of land marked by an oak tree or trees, from Middle English oke ‘oak’ + land ‘land’.