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Filkins

Filkins proper noun: a surname transferred from the given name.

Proper noun

Filkins

  1. A surname transferred from the given name.

Origin of Filkins

From Filkin (“a medieval diminutive of Philip”) + -s (“genitive (mainly patronymic) suffix”).

Questions about Filkins

What does Filkins mean?
Filkins means a surname transferred from the given name.
What part of speech is Filkins?
Filkins is a proper noun.

Words near Filkins in the dictionary

  1. filked
  2. filker
  3. filkers
  4. Filkin
  5. filking
  6. Filkins
  7. filks
  8. filksing
  9. filksinger
  10. filksingers
  11. filksinging

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Filkins (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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