Skip to main content

Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : topographic name for someone who lived by a patch of fallow land, Middle English falwe (Old English f(e)alg). This word was used to denote both land left uncultivated for a time to recover its fertility and land recently brought into cultivation.
  • The name is also borne by Ashkenazic Jews, as an Americanized form of one or more like-sounding Jewish surnames.

Join the Family

Your partner in parenting from baby name inspiration to college planning.

Subscribe