Edkins
Edkins is a surname. The surname has patronymic origins, meaning Edkin's son.[1] Edkin is a diminutive or pet name form of Ed or Eddie, which are shortenings of personal names such as Edward or Edmund.[2][3] Mark Antony Lower calls Edkins a diminutive of Edward.[4] In some instances, Edkins may have also emerged as a variant or altered form of Atkins or Adkins.[2][5]
Notable people with the surname include:
- Alex Edkins, Canadian musician
- Barry Edkins (born 1956), New Zealand rugby player
- Don Edkins (born 1953), South African filmmaker and producer
- Jenny Edkins, British political scientist
- Joseph Edkins (1823–1905), British Protestant missionary, linguist, translator, and philologist
- Teboho Edkins (born 1980), American-born South African film director
References
- ^ Harrison, Henry; Pulling, Gyða (1912). Surnames of the United Kingdom: a concise etymological dictionary. Vol. 1. London: Eaton Press. p. 131.
- ^ a b Hanks, Patrick; Coates, Richard A.; McClure, Peter (2016). The Oxford dictionary of family names in Britain and Ireland. Oxford (GB): Oxford university press. p. 816. ISBN 9780199677764.
- ^ Bardsley, Charles Wareing (1901). Bardsley, A. (ed.). A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American Instances (revised ed.). London: Henry Frowde. p. 266.
- ^ Lower, Mark Antony (1860). Patronymica Britannica. A dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: John Russell Smith. p. 101.
- ^ Dictionary of American Family Names$ Dictionary of American Family Names (2 ed.). Oxford University Press. 2022. ISBN 9780190245122.
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