English (mainly Yorkshire): from the Middle English personal name
Perkin, Parkin, a pet form of Peter with the
diminutive suffix -kin. (The change from -er- to
-ar- was a characteristic phonetic development in Old French
and Middle English.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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