Onomastics
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James Rodney Richard, one of the few men I know big enough to have three first names.
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In simplest terms my thesis is this: that the standard explanation that all forms of Wilk/Wilkin beginning surnames being variants of the “diminutive for William” or “son of diminutive for William,” and usually with the presumption that this commonly assumed etymology is Norman in origin, is simply not accurate. At the very least this standard etymology, which is seemingly ubiquitous, is woefully incomplete and, arguably, almost totally wrong for the vast majority of “Wilk” surname lineages.
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― Forgotten Wolves of Wilkinaland: A New Etymology Hypothesis for the Wilkinson Surname (and Variants) in England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales
― Forgotten Wolves of Wilkinaland: A New Etymology Hypothesis for the Wilkinson Surname (and Variants) in England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales
