Walker

in Indiana

There are 8,154 people with the last name "Walker" in Indiana.

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Ranking in Indiana

NameRank
Walker 27
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  1. is 23rd most common King
  2. is 24th most common Scott
  3. is 25th most common Lewis
  4. is 26th most common Young
  5. is 27th most common Walker
  6. is 28th most common Robinson
  7. is 29th most common Adams
  8. is 30th most common Cox
  9. is 31st most common Campbell

Similar Names and Nicknames

Welker, Walk, Walkup, Wilcher, Walke, Walkowiak, Walko, Welcher, Wilker, Walkley

Most Common First Names for Walker

James, Robert, John, William, David, Michael, Charles, Mary, Richard, Thomas



Meaning & 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’.

FOREBEARS The name was brought to North America from northern England and Scotland independently by many different bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. Samuel Walker came to Lynn, MA, in about 1630; Philip Walker was in Rehoboth, MA, in or before 1643. The surname was also established in VA before 1650; a Thomas Walker, born in 1715 in King and Queen Co., VA, was a physician, soldier, and explorer.


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