What Does Larkin Mean?

What Does Larkin Mean? Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Lorcáin ‘descendant of Lorcán’, a personal name from a diminutive of lorc ‘fierce’, ‘cruel’, which was sometimes used as an equivalent to Lawrence. … Where does the name Larkin? The Irish Larkin is an anglicization of the Gaelic Lorcan, a personal name meaning “rough”