German: from a medieval personal name, a short form of various
Germanic personal names with the first element folk
‘people’. Compare Foulkes.Czech: variant of the
personal name Volek.Slovenian: nickname from
volk ‘wolf’.Ukrainian: Russianized form of Ukrainian
Vovk, a nickname meaning ‘wolf’.Jewish (western
Ashkenazic): ornamental name from German Volk ‘people’.English: variant of Foulks.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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