Family name origins & meanings
- English : from the Norman personal name Asketin, a pet form of the Old Norse name Ásketil (see Haskell).
- Irish : shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hUiscín ‘descendant of Uiscín’, apparently a diminutive of uisce ‘water’ (and thus the surname may be ‘translated’ Waters), but possibly a corruption of a diminutive of Fuarghus meaning ‘cold choice’.
- Jewish (from Ukraine) : metronymic from Yiddish name Khaske, a pet form of Khane (see Hanna 1) + the Slavic possessive suffix -in.