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Hodgkinson
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Origin Of The Surname Hodgkinson
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Meaning Of The Surname Hodgkinson
Descendant of Rodger
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Interesting
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Hodgkinson
Hodgkinson is an unusual and rare example of a surname that it patronymic on three level. Patronymic surnames were traditionally given to pass down the name of an ancestor to their kin. We shall break up this surname and look first to the ‘Hodge’ element. Hodge was used as a first name and was a pet form of the German name Rodger, which was brought to Britain by invading Normans. So the original ancestor would have been called Rodger and Hodge would have been hi nickname. Then comes the element ‘kin’ which was often added to a man’s first name to form a surname for his family. Kin refers to blood relations so the surname ‘Hodgekin’ would have been given to the blood relations of the man named Hodge. Then there is the suffixed ‘son’, meaning literally son. So the original bearer of the surname ‘Hodgekinson’ would have been the son of a blood relation of the man named Hodge. |
Hodgkinson Statistics
Hodgkinson is the number 1076 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 9,450 share the surname Hodgkinson in the UK.
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