The lakin Surname
lakin Name Meaning and History
- Americanized spelling of Jewish Leykin (from Belarus), a metronymic from Leyke, a pet form of the Yiddish female personal name Leye, from the Hebrew female personal name Lea, from which English Leah is derived (see Genesis 29: 16) + the Slavic possessive suffix -in.
- English: from a medieval personal name, a diminutive of Lawrence. Compare Law 1 and Larkin.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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