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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (mainly Norfolk and Suffolk) : variant of Faulks.
  • Dutch : from the Germanic personal name Facco, a variant of Falco, itself probably a short form of a personal name formed with fal, a tribal name (as in Westphalia) or alternatively a byname meaning ‘falcon’.

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