Falk

Falk is the 3,160th most common surname in the United States, shared by 11,143 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 26,800.

By the numbers

People: 11,143
Rank: 3,160th
How common: 1 in 26,800
Per 100,000: 3.7

Where the name comes from

As a German, Jewish and Scandinavian/gmq surname, from the nouns Falke, Yiddish פֿאַלקאַן, falk (“falcon”). Compare Valk.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Falk

Peter Falk (1927–2011)American actor
Johan Peter Falk (1732–1774)Swedish botanist
Lee Falk (1911–1999)American comics writer
Rossella Falk (1926–2013)Italian actress
Jennifer Falk (born 1993)Swedish association football player
Feliks Falk (born 1941)Polish film and theater director, screenwriter and playwright
Richard Anderson Falk (born 1930)American law professor and writer
Hanna Falk (born 1989)Swedish cross-country skier

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

Surnames like Falk

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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.