Last Name TONKIN

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Meaning The son of Antony, from the nickname Tony, and with diminutive suffix Ton-kin. 'Kins' becomes 'ks.' Another possibility is a corruption of Tomkinson and Tomkins.
Male name TONKIN is a Latin spelling of its Cyrillic origins 'ТОНКИН' (for the male) and 'ТОНКИНА' (for its female versions). Below are some other possible Latin spellings of the Cyrillic versions of these names.
Male versions of the name: 'TONKIN' 'TONCIN' 'TONCKIN'
Female versions of the name: 'TONKINA' 'TONCINA' 'TONCKINA' .
Origin English, Russian, Irish, South african

Rank 14,658 (2000 US census) 13,146 (1990 US census)
Count 1,860 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 95.81%, or 1782 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • undisclosed % as black,
  • 0.59%, or 11 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • undisclosed % as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.88%, or 35 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.51%, or 28 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


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