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falkenstein Name Meaning and History

  1. German: habitational name from any of several places named Falkenstein, from Old High German falke ‘falcon’ + stein ‘stone’, ‘rock’, here indicating a medieval castle. This has been a common surname in Germany since the late 14th century.
  2. Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name as in 1 or an ornamental name composed of German Falke ‘falcon’ + Stein ‘stone’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of falkenstein Families in the US in 1920
Number of falkenstein families
 17-32
 6-16		 1-5
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Surname Falkenstein. looking for Lulu rosesnivys4ever 2
Falkenstein, Edward Grover Cleveland Deborah Falkenstein Unger 2
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Falkenstein Family in Germany and PA, New Site Donna Forney Clark 0
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Heinrich (Harry) L. von Falkenstein edie_98 0
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