Last name: YATES
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YATES : This last name is indexed 395,721 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
YATES : English: from Middle English yates ‘gates’ plural of yate Old English geat ‘gate’ hence a topographic or occupational name for someone who lived by the gates of a town or castle and who probably acted as the gatekeeper or porter. Compare Gates. Alternatively a variant of the singular form Yate with post-medieval excrescent -s.
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