Temkin, Tyomkin, or Tiomkin (feminine: Temkina, Tyomkina, Temkina, or Tiomkina) are different transliterations of a Russian-language surname Тёмкин/Тёмкина.

In at least in one case – Elizabeth Temkina – the surname is the truncation of the surname Potemkin, which was sometimes done when naming illegitimate children of aristocrats in the Russian Empire.[1]

Notable people with the surname include:

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  1. ^ Boris Unbegaun, Russian surnames, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972; Russian version: Русские фамилии, 1989, Chapter IX: "Artificial surnames"