The larkin Surname
larkin Name Meaning and History
- English: from a medieval personal name, a pet form of Lawrence, formed with the addition of the Middle English suffix -kin (of Low German origin).
- Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Lorcáin ‘descendant of Lorcán’, a personal name from a diminutive of lorc ‘fierce’, ‘cruel’, which was sometimes used as an equivalent to Lawrence.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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