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walker Name Meaning and History

English (especially Yorkshire) and Scottish: occupational name for a fuller, Middle English walkere, Old English wealcere, an agent derivative of wealcan ‘to walk, tread’. This was the regular term for the occupation during the Middle Ages in western and northern England. Compare Fuller and Tucker. As a Scottish surname it has also been used as a translation of Gaelic Mac an Fhucadair ‘son of the fuller’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The walker name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the walker family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of walker Families in the US in 1920
Number of walker families
 2173-4343
 725-2172		 1-724
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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