Mirkin

Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): metronymic from the Yiddish female personal name Mirke, a pet form of the Biblical Hebrew name Miryam, a very ancient name of uncertain etymology, perhaps meaning ‘wished-for child’, from an Egyptian root mrj with the addition of the Hebrew feminine diminutive suffix -am.

GIVEN NAMES: Russian 12%; Jewish 9%. Boris (6), Leonid (2), Mirk (2), Ekaterina, Emiliya, Georgy, Mikhail, Mikhial, Raisa, Semion, Sergei, Vladimir; Isadore, Zehava.

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