Larkin

Where Larkin comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Larkin.

  • 2 syllables
Larkin through the years
  1. 1835
    Larkin Goldsmith Mead born
    American artist
  2. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #442 among boys with 16 babies in the first year on record, and still its best.
  3. 1883
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #799.
  4. 1944
    Larkin I. Smith born
    American politician
  5. 1996
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name. From this year on, more girls have.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name.
Namesakes
  • Larkin Goldsmith Mead · American artist, 1835–1910
  • Larkin I. Smith · American politician, 1944–1989
  • Larkin Kerwin · Canadian physicist, 1924–2004
  • Larkin Seiple · American cinematographer, born 1985
  • Larkin Malloy · American actor, 1954–2016

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.