Lakin Family History
- Lakin Name Meaning
- Americanized spelling of Jewish Leykin (from Belarus), a metronymic from Leyke, a pet form of the Yiddish female personal name Leye, from the Hebrew female personal name Lea, from which English Leah is derived (see Genesis 29: 16) + the Slavic possessive suffix -in. English: from a medieval personal name, a diminutive of Lawrence. Compare Law 1 and Larkin.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 265,366 Historical Documents with Lakin on Ancestry
- 86,452 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 47,549 Census and Voter Lists
- 7,261 Military Records
- 4,873 Immigration Records
- 119,231 Member Trees
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Number of Lakin families
 233 - 463  78 - 232 |
 1 - 77  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Lakin families
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7 - 12 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Lakin census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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