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The faulkner Surname

faulkner Name Meaning and History

English: occupational name for someone who kept and trained falcons (a common feudal service). Falconry was a tremendously popular sport among the aristocracy in medieval Europe, and most great houses had their falconers. The surname could also have arisen as metonymic occupational name for someone who operated the siege gun known as a falcon.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of faulkner Families in the US in 1920
Number of faulkner families
 180-357
 61-179		 1-60
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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