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Surname Etymology and Meaning of ADKINS

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Little Adam, or the son of Adam, from Ad and kins, a diminutive, signifying child, from the German kind, so Wilkins, Tompkins, etc.

Source: An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names With an Essay on their Derivation and Import (1857).