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The falk Surname

falk Name Meaning and History

  1. German: from Middle High German valke ‘falcon’, hence a nickname or a metonymic occupational name for a falconer.
  2. Scandinavian: ornamental name from falk ‘falcon’.
  3. Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name from German Falke ‘falcon’, or, in Bohemia, from Czech vlk ‘wolf’.
  4. Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name from Yiddish falk ‘falcon’ or from the personal name Falk with the same meaning.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of falk Families in the US in 1920
Number of falk families
 171-340
 58-170		 1-57
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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August and Till Falk JanetWillard45 8
John Falk, bio ccountr1 0
Looking for Joseph, Bertha, and son John Falk from Germany AgentBasheba 0
falk family in 1910 joan_falk 7
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Falk name change from Falikovic Maureenfalk 1
Frank Falk barblegarble 0
Queiry - Jacob Falk Great Grandfather of Humboldt Co, CA Falks bcf645upr 0
Carl Friedrich Falk leefisch1 0
Falk Family from Kristiansund Norway carocleeve 0
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