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I believe it is from Enterkin Scotland near Dumfriesshire. I’ve been doing research on my family history after DNA testing and have traced several spellings of Enterkin, Entrekin, Entrikin

yay my dad hi mom

BTW, I forgot to mention that my husband's name is William. His father's name was William. His grandfather's name was also William. :)

You may find the following website interesting:
http://www.geocities.com/nadineholder/Entriken.html
or http://vidas.rootsweb.com/entrekin.html

[...One of the barrier ridges northward is pierced by the narrow gloomy pass of Enterkin, through which the sister vales of Nith and Clyde keep up precarious intercourse....]

the above text is taken from the following website:
http://www.electricscotland.com/history/dumfries/history1.htm

Your name is of Scottish origin. I've searched from variant to variant (Entrikin, Entriken, Entrican, Entrekin and Enterkin). It points to Scotland at the end. The name Enterkin is a place and a pass in Scotland. There is a record of a William of Enterkin Dunbar, a Scotsman. You'll find it on the following website:
http://personal.nbnet.nb.ca/swerner/radical/undertakers.html

Many other variants: Entricken, Entrickon, Entricon, Entrecan, etc.

The meaning i can't find. At first i thought it might be from Hendrick, but this seems very unlikely, because there are less variants starting with end- than with ent- . There is the English word entrick which means 'to trick, perplex'. Maybe this is the meaning of the placename.

Here another site about the Entrekin family:
http://www.geocities.com/byronic106/entriken.html

This leads to more variants: Entrieken, Entriekin, Entergun and Antrican.

[...To the left in amongest the hills is the Enterkin Pass where in 1684 Covenanters ambushed a party of Dragoons....]

I talked about it with someone else why someone would name himself after a pass. He had the brilliant idea that in the old days those passes were often guarded and thus inhabited.

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