A quick google search found Australian AFL player with the name Tarkyn - plays for Collingwood - ugh. And then a few mum's have named their boys Tarkyn on a few Australian baby name websites.
Seda is right with it may be a form of
Tarquin.
http://www.jitterbug.com/origins/julie_lim_namefaq.txtTarkin:
A near-homophone of "
Tarquin," the name of several Etruscan
kings of Rome. The last of these,
Tarquin the Proud, committed
such outrages that the Romans overthrew the monarchy and
established the republic. The outrage most commonly commemorated
in art is his rape of the
Roman noblewoman
Lucretia.
http://tc_mcmullen.tripod.com/theunseen/id13.htmlsays from a book that Tarkin was created from Tarik (warrior) and said TAR-ken. But then he says he used
Bryn - getting it from
Brynja - which means armour and he says it means dark... I wouldn't believe this one.
Naomi