Boy name origins & meanings
- English : Falconer, one who trains falcons
Boy name variations
Family name origins & meanings
- German : occupational name for a falconer, Middle High German vakenoere. In medieval times falconry was a sport practised only by the nobility; it was the task of the falconer to look after the birds and train young ones.
- English : variant spelling of Faulkner.
- Daniel Falckner (1666–c.1745), German Lutheran pastor and agent for the Frankfurt Land Company, founded the first German Lutheran congregation in America.