The story
- Old Norse · derived fromlœkr“stream, brook”
- English todayLeake
* As an English but ultimately North Germanic surname, from Old Norse lœkr (“stream, brook”). The Norse word is found in many English place names, such as Leck in Lancashire, and the surname could have been from these names. Compare the variant Leach. * Also as an occupational English surname, from the noun leek.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.