Larkin Family History
Larkin Name Meaning
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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Name Distribution of Larkin Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Larkin families
 390 - 778  131 - 389 |
 1 - 130  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Larkin families
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284 - 565 95 - 283 |
1 - 94 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Larkin families
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44 - 85 15 - 43 |
1 - 14 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Larkin Family Origin
Larkin Immigration Information
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Larkin Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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