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Walker

in New Hampshire

There are 1,256 people with the last name "Walker" in New Hampshire.

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Ranking in New Hampshire

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Walker 44
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  1. is 40th most common Perry
  2. is 41st most common Gray
  3. is 42nd most common Morin
  4. is 43rd most common Pelletier
  5. is 44th most common Walker
  6. is 45th most common Obrien
  7. is 46th most common Macdonald
  8. is 47th most common Russell
  9. is 48th most common Boucher

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Walker

Robert, David, William, James, John, Kenneth, Michael, Donna, Richard

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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Robert Walker, NH (9 searches)
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