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.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 961,817 Historical Documents with Larkin on Ancestry
- 331,872 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 210,626 Census and Voter Lists
- 37,377 Military Records
- 36,550 Immigration Records
- 345,392 Member Trees
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Number of Larkin families
 284 - 565  95 - 283 |
 1 - 94  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Larkin families
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19 - 36 7 - 18 |
1 - 6 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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