Drake vs Skip

Drake

name
  • An English surname transferred from the nickname, originally a byname from Old English draca or Old Norse draki, both meaning “dragon”. 

  • An unincorporated community in Missouri; named for Missouri statesman Charles D. Drake. 

  • Francis Drake (1540-1596), English sea captain, pirate, and explorer of the Elizabethan era. 

  • A ward of Plymouth, Devon, England; named for aqueduct Drake's Leat, itself for Francis Drake, Mayor of Plymouth at the time of its construction. 

  • A city in North Dakota; named for early settler Herman Drake. 

  • An unincorporated community in Arizona. 

  • An unincorporated community in Colorado. 

  • A male given name transferred from the surname. 

  • A town in New South Wales, Australia. 

  • An unincorporated community in Kentucky. 

  • An unincorporated community in Illinois. 

  • An Irish surname, anglicized from Drach, itself a Hiberno-Norman name English Drake. 

  • A village in Saskatchewan, Canada. 

  • An unincorporated community in South Carolina. 

Skip

name
  • A male given name from Old Norse. 

How often have the words Drake and Skip occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )