Falkner
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A surname originating as an occupation
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈfɔknɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Falkner is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 94K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 107K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 17K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 309 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
New Zealand, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A surname originating as an occupation.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Falkner is read(measured from records)
Falkner is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English78%
A surname originating as an occupation.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German11%
falconer (male or of unspecified sex)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Falkner counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈7,400 est. | ≈1 in 187K | — | Falkner | 4 |
| US United States | — | 3,097 | 1 in 107K | 3.1K | Falkner | 309 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 94K | — | Falkner | 94 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 78K | — | Falkner | 1 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 184K | — | Falkner | 5 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Falkner | 30 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈81 est. | ≈1 in 77K | — | Falkner | 3 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 32 | 1 in 66K | 32 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | — | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Falkner | 2 |
| BB Barbados | #442 | — | — | — | Falkner | 2 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Priscilla Susan Buryb. 1799GBnot in their usual nameBritish botanist and artist (1799–1872)
- William Clark Falknerb. 1825USConfederate Army officer
- John Meade Falknerb. 1858GBBritish writer (1858–1932)
- Murry Faulknerb. 1870not in their usual name17 Aug 1870 - 7 Aug 1932
- Fanny Falknerb. 1891SESwedish actress and miniaturist (1890-1963)
- Ernst Falknerb. 1909DEGerman politician (1909-1950)
- Rupert Falknerb. 1930ATarchitect from Austria
- Gerhard Falknerb. 1951DEGerman writer and translator
- Kishwer Falkner, Baroness Falkner of Margravineb. 1955GBBritish Baroness (born 1955)
- Jason Falknerb. 1968USAmerican musician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.1K | #10,402 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3K | #9,845 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.8K | #10,732 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 32 | #10,294 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Falkner mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname originating as an occupation. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Falkner?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈfɔknɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Falkner?
- In the etymology graph, Faulkner is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Falkner have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.4 thousand people named Falkner in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled falkner.
- How common is the name Falkner?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,097 people named Falkner in 2010, about 1 in 107 thousand residents.
- How common is Falkner compared with other names?
- In Barbados, Falkner is the 442nd most common surname of 11,500 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Falkner?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/falknerThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Falkner” — the 442nd most common surname in Barbados. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.