Fallon

Fallon is the 3,085th most common surname in the United States, shared by 11,367 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 26,300.

By the numbers

People: 11,367
Rank: 3,085th
How common: 1 in 26,300
Per 100,000: 3.8

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Fallamhain (“descendant of Fallamhan”), a personal name related to follúnaitheoir (“ruler, governor”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.3%
Black, not Hispanic 1.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Fallon

Jimmy Fallon (born 1974)American talk show host and comedian
Siobhan Fallon Hogan (born 1961)American actress
Michael Fallon (born 1952)British politician
Rory Fallon (born 1982)New Zealand footballer
Craig Fallon (1982–2019)British judoka
Trisha Fallon (born 1972)Australian basketball player
Pat Fallon (born 1967)American businessman and politician
Órla Fallon (born 1974)Irish singer and songwriter

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

Surnames like Fallon

Also a first name

Fallon has been given to 12,253 American babies as a first name since 1972, peaking in 1982. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.