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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