Nutkins Family History
Nutkins Name Meaning
variant of the now extinct surname Nutkin with post-medieval excrescent -s. Its origin is a Middle English male or female personal name Nutekin or Notekin which was probably introduced to England from Flanders or Picardy after the Norman Conquest. It corresponds to Middle Dutch *Noutekin Noidekin a diminutive of Middle Dutch Nout itself a pet form of the Middle Dutch male name Arnout (Continental Germanic Arnwald see Arnold ) and presumably also of its female equivalent which is attested in the latinized forms Arnolda (Paris 9th cent.) and Ernaud(i)a (Arras 13th cent.). Compare Nutland .
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016