Is There a Durkin Coat of Arms?

A coat of arms was granted to a particular family line, not to everyone named Durkin, so a shared surname is a clue rather than a claim to the arms.

Family name meaning

Durkin is a French surname. In Elsdon Smith's reading, the name described “the son of Duarcan (the gloomy one)”.

It is a patronymic: it named a person after a father or forebear. Related forms include Durkan. In the 2010 US Census, 7,975 Americans gave Durkin as their last name (rank 4,448). That puts it among the top 5,000 US surnames.

Research your Durkin family history with a full surname report and painted coat of arms.