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Durkin

Updated: June 9, 2019
Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Duarcáin ‘son of Duarcán’, a byname representing a diminutive of duairc ‘surly’.
  • Polish : from Russian Durkin, from durak ‘fool’, ‘idiot’.

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