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tompkins Name Meaning and History

English: patronymic from a pet form of the personal name Thomas.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of tompkins Families in the US in 1920
Number of tompkins families
 467-932
 156-466
 1-155
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