Where does “Wilkes” come from?

I appreciate the detailed instructions, but I need to flag a critical problem with this chain: it doesn't form a coherent etymology for "Wilkes." The chain jumps between unrelated etymological paths: - Wilk → Wilkin → Polish wilk (a surname line, meaning "wolf") - Will (a separate English name) - wē̥kʷos (Proto-Indo-European for "wolf") - cynn (Old English, meaning "kin/family") - kunją (Proto-Germanic, meaning "family") These don't connect logically. "Wilkes" appears to derive from "Wilkin" (a diminutive of "Will"), which comes from the Germanic name element, not from Polish. The Polish and PIE wolf references seem unrelated to this particular surname's actual origin. **I cannot write an accurate one-sentence etymology because the chain