Dawkins - origins?
Anybody know where the surname Dawkins derives from? Apparently it might come from Daykin/Dakin, which is something to do with brewery, but no idea...
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English, double diminutive of David - Daw as in Dawes, Dawson, etc., plus -kins, as in Wilkins, Jenkins, etc.
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