Tracing the Lumpkins Family Name

Some records give Lumpkin; others give Lumpkins. Both point to the same English family name. In origin, the name means “Descendant of little Lam or Lump, pet forms of Lambert. (land, bright)”.

• The extra ending in Lumpkins is patronymic: it identified a person as belonging to Lumpkin's family.
• 2,434 Americans were listed as Lumpkins in the 2010 census. That is enough to place it in the top 25,000 American surnames.
• Before spelling was standardised, one family could appear under several forms.

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