Last name: FAULKNER
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FAULKNER : This last name is indexed 144,417 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
FAULKNER : English: from Middle English fauconer fauk(e)ner falconer ‘falconer’ (Old French fau(l)connier) an occupational name for someone who kept and trained falcons (a common feudal service). Falconry was a tremendously popular sport among the aristocracy in medieval Europe and most great houses had their falconers. The surname could also have arisen as a metonymic occupational name for someone who operated the siege gun known as a falcon.
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