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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