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Larkin Larkin — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ LAR-kin /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Fierce (Irish + Philip Larkin English poet)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Irish)

A name that means "fierce (irish + philip larkin english poet)".

Larkin is from the Irish Ó Lorcáin — from Irish lorcán (fierce/cruel) — also possibly little rough one. Larkin is one of the Irish-English feminine + unisex names — central to traditional English literary heritage.

Fierce (Irish + Philip Larkin English poet).

The name in its native script.

Larkin
Transliteration
Larkin
Pronunciation
/ ˈlɑːr.kɪn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Larkin stands.

Larkin does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Larkins before her.

Real people
Philip Larkin
English poet + novelist + librarian + The Whitsun Weddings 1964 + High Windows 1974 + Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 1965 + Order of the Companions of Honour 1985.
1922 – 1985
In fiction
Saint Lorcán Ua Tuathail
Archbishop of Dublin + canonized 1226 + patron saint of Dublin.
1128 – 1180

Names connected to Larkin.

The number behind Larkin.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Larkin reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.