The hopkins Surname
hopkins Name Meaning and History
- English: patronymic from Hopkin. The surname is widespread throughout southern and central England, but is at its most common in South Wales.
- Irish (County Longford and western Ireland): Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Oibicín, itself a Gaelicized form of an Anglo-Norman name. In other parts of the country this name is generally of English origin.
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