Family name origins & meanings
- English : patronymic from Hopkin. The surname is widespread throughout southern and central England, but is at its most common in South Wales.
- Irish (County Longford and western Ireland) : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Oibicín, itself a Gaelicized form of an Anglo-Norman name. In other parts of the country this name is generally of English origin.
- Stephen Hopkins (c.1580–1644) was a pilgrim on the Mayflower in 1620 and one of the founders of Plymouth Colony. At his death he left seven children and eighteen grandchildren.