Faulkner

At the 2020 census, 34,330 Americans bore the surname Faulkner — 998th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 8,707.

By the numbers

People: 34,330
Rank: 998th
How common: 1 in 8,707
Per 100,000: 11.5

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

A variant of the Scottish surname Falconer.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 76.3%
Black, not Hispanic 15.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Faulkner

William Faulkner (1897–1962)American writer
Richie Faulkner (born 1980)British guitarist
James Faulkner (born 1948)English actor
Walt Faulkner (1918–1956)racecar driver
Kristen Faulkner (born 1992)American cyclist
James Faulkner (born 1990)Australian cricketer
Newton Faulkner (born 1985)English singer-songwriter
Edward Faulkner (1932–2025)American actor

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

Surnames like Faulkner

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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.