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View Surname: Yates


YATES
SOURCE: Location
USAGE: English, Welsh
Meaning & History
Means "dweller by the gate", "gate keeper" from the Old English word geat meaning "gate". Or denotes a person hailing from Yate (Gloucestershire), England.
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