A German writer has suggested that the name is more likely to derive from the village Tolkynen, near Rastenburg, East Prussia (now in north-eastern Poland), although that village is far from Lower Saxony; its name is derived from the now-extinct Old Prussian language.
Один немецкий писатель предположил, что фамилия, скорее всего, произошла от названия деревни Tolkynen близ Растенбурга в Восточной Пруссии (ныне северо-восточная Польша), хотя до Нижней Саксонии там далеко.