Släkthistoria för Starkin
Starkin Vad efternamn betyder
perhaps from an unrecorded Old French personal name *Starkin a pet form of Continental Germanic names beginning in Stark- ‘strong’ such as Starc(w)ulf and Starcher both of which appear in 1086 as names of Domesday Book tenants in E Anglia: Starcolf (Norfolk) and Starker (Suffolk). However no medieval evidence for Starkin as a given name or a surname has been found unless Hugh Tarchin 1307 in Subsidy Rolls (Ware Herts) bears a variant of this name in which initial S- has been lost.an alternative possibility is a derivation from an unrecorded Middle English *starking ‘strong one’ (see Stark) but in the absence of any medieval evidence this is highly conjectural.perhaps a variant of Starkey with -in substituted for -ey. Compare John Starkey 1603 in IGI (Smallburgh Norfolk) who is recorded a couple of miles from Jhon Starkin 1580 in IGI (Sloley Norfolk); and JohesStarkie 1561 Prudence Starkin 1612 in IGI (Thaxted Essex). Starkey is also found in Herts though not in the same parishes as Starkin: Tho. Starkey 1572 in IGI (Aldenham Herts); Henrici Starkey 1621 in IGI (Hatfield Herts). However it is perhaps more likely that Starkey in these E Midland names is a variant of Starkin in (i) with loss of final -n.
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016