The botkin Surname
botkin Name Meaning and History
Probably an altered spelling of the English surnames Bodkin
or Batkin. The first is from Middle English bodkin,
bodekin ‘dagger’, ‘short pointed weapon’, and hence a metonymic
occupational name for a maker or seller of such weapons; the second is
a pet form of the personal name Bate, itself a reduced form of
Bartholomew.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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