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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (chiefly East Anglia) : from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements folk ‘people’ + hari, heri ‘army’, which was introduced into England from France by the Normans; isolated examples may derive from the cognate Old English Folchere or Old Norse Folkar, but these names were far less common.

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