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hopkins Name Meaning and History

  1. English: patronymic from Hopkin. The surname is widespread throughout southern and central England, but is at its most common in South Wales.
  2. 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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Distribution of hopkins Families in the US in 1920
Number of hopkins families
 655-1308
 219-654
 1-218
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