Falconer

At the 2020 census, 3,364 Americans bore the surname Falconer — 9,284th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 88,900.

By the numbers

People: 3,364
Rank: 9,284th
How common: 1 in 88,900
Per 100,000: 1.1

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Falconer described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 69.7%
Black, not Hispanic 19.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Hispanic or Latino 4.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Falconer

Hugh Falconer (1808–1865)Scottish scientist
Etta Zuber Falconer (1933–2002)American mathematician & academic
Charles Falconer, Baron Falconer of Thoroton (born 1951)British politician, peer and barrister
William Falconer (1732–1769)British writer and poet
Ian Falconer (1959–2023)American illustrator and writer, costume and set designer

People named Falconer with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Falconer

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.