as a Last Name
- 40,562
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Faulkner
Meaning & Origins
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.
| 863rd in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 40,562
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Kentucky
- has the most people named Faulkner per capita
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