Eldrake is used as a family name or surname in England. It is 7 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Eldrake
No. of characters: 7
Origin: England
Meaning:

Variant of Aldrich. An ancient personal name. As a surname it is found in the Hundred Rolls.

Form of Eldridge. One who came from Elbridge meaning "plank bridge," in Kent.

Eldrake is a variant of the Aldrich. Descendant of Alderich meaning noble, ruler. Also sometimes considered a variant of Aldridge, a village from alders, in Staffordshire.

Lastname is the variation of Eldridge. Perhaps local. Eldridge, clriche, or elritch, is, however, a medieval word signifying wild, hideous, ghastly, lonesome, uninhabited except by spectres. In the ballad of Sir Cauline is a description of an "eldridge knight." The fair Christabelle sends her lover on a perilous errand, but forewarns him-
"The Eldridge knight, so mickle of might,
Will examine you beforne:
And never man bare life awaye,
But he did hun scath and scorne.
That knighte he is a fond paynim,
And large of limb and bone;
And but if heaven may be thy speeden,
Thy life it is but gone."

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