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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English and Scottish (of Norman origin) : habitational name from Falaise in Calvados, France, the birthplace of William the Conqueror. The place is so named from Old French falaise ‘cliff’ (a word of Germanic origin).
  • Scottish and northern Irish : reduced form of McFalls.

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