To furnish a list of English names ending in _kin_ would be impossible. The great favourites were Hopkin (Robert),[3] Lampkin and Lambkin (Lambert), Larkin (Lawrence), Tonkin (Antony), Dickin, Stepkin (Stephen),[4] Dawkin (David), Adkin,[5] now Atkin (Adam, not Arthur), Jeffkin (Jeffrey), Pipkin and Potkin (Philip), Simkin, Tipkin (Theobald), Tomkin, Wilkin, Watkin (Walter), Jenkin, Silkin (Sybil),[6] Malkin (Mary), Perkin (Peter), Hankin (Hans), and Halkin or Hawkin (Henry). Pashkin or Paskin reminds us of Pask or Pash, the old baptismal name for children born at Easter. Judkin (now as a surname also Juckin) was the representative of Judd, that is, Jordan. George afterwards usurped the place. All these names would be entered in their orthodox baptismal style in all formal records. But here and there we get free and easy entries, as for instance: "Agnes Hobkin-wyf, iiii{d}."--W. D. S. "Henry, son of Halekyn, for 17-1/2 acres of land."--"De Lacy Inquisition," 1311. "Emma Watkyn-doghter, iiii{d}."--W. D. S. "Thi beste cote, Hankyn, Hath manye moles and spottes, It moste ben y-wasshe." "Piers Plowman." _Malkin_ was one of the few English female names with this appendage. Some relics of this form of Mary still remain. Malkin in Shakespeare is the coarse scullery wench: "The kitchen malkin pins Her richest lockram 'bout her reechy neck, Clambering the walls to eye him." "Coriolanus," Act ii. sc. 1. While the author of the "Anatomy of Melancholy" is still more unkind, for he says-- "A filthy knave, a deformed quean, a crooked carcass, a maukin, a witch, a rotten post, a hedge-stake may be so set out and tricked up, that it shall make a fair show, as much enamour as the rest."--Part iii. sect. 2, mem. 2, sub-sect. 3. From a drab Malkin became a scarecrow. Hence Chaucer talks of "malkin-trash." As if this were not enough, malkin became the baker's clout to clean ovens with. Thus, as Jack took the name of the implements Jack used, as in boot-jack, so by easy transitions Malkin. The last hit was when Grimalkin (that is, grey-malkin) came to be the cant term for an old worn-out quean cat. Hence the witch's name in "Macbeth." It will be seen at a glance why Malkin is the only name of this class that has no place among our surnames.[7] She had lost character. I have suggested, in "English Surnames," that Makin, Meakin, and Makinson owe their origin to either Mary or Maud. I would retract that supposition. There can be little doubt these are patronymics of Matthew, just as is Maycock or Meacock. Maykinus Lappyng occurs in "Materials for a History of Henry VII.," and the Maykina Parmunter of the Hundred Rolls is probably but a feminine form. The masculine name was often turned into a feminine, but I have never seen an instance of the reverse order.