Valk is a surname. It means "falcon" in Dutch and can be of metonymic origin referring to a falconer. Alternatively, it can be patronymic, son of Falk/Falco, a West Frisian given name.Nederlandse Familienamenbank. Meertens.knaw.nl (2009-11-16). Retrieved on 2017-01-13.NVB – verklaring voornaam Falk. Meertens.knaw.nl. Retrieved on 2017-01-13. There were 4380 people with the surname in the Netherlands in 2007.Nederlandse Familienamenbank. Meertens.knaw.nl. Retrieved on 2017-01-13. The name Valk in Estonia (895 people)VALK last name in Estonia – VALK family. MyHeritage. Retrieved on 2017-01-13. may be related to the town Valka.
Geographical distribution As of 2014, 61.8% of all known bearers of the surname Valk were residents of the Netherlands (frequency 1:3,165), 14.3% of the United States (1:292,986), 8.7% of Estonia (1:1,758), 3.5% of Germany (1:268,323), 1.8% of Canada (1:243,695), 1.7% of Brazil (1:1,372,565), 1.3% of Russia (1:1,222,807), 1.3% of Australia (1:214,179), 1.3% of New Zealand (1:41,921) and 1.0% of France (1:791,757).
In the Netherlands, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:3,165) in the following provinces:Valk surname distribution Overijssel (1:1,950) South Holland (1:2,187) Friesland (1:2,277) North Holland (1:3,163)
People Aune Valk (born 1972), Estonian psychologist Curtis Valk (born 1993), Canadian ice hockey player E. M. Valk-Heijnsdijk (1867–1945), Dutch cookbook writer and restaurateur Frederick Valk (1895–1956), German actor Garry Valk (born 1967), Canadian ice hockey player Heiki Valk (born 1959), Estonian archaeologist Heinz Valk (born 1936), Estonian artist, caricaturist and politician Henry S. Valk (born 1929), American physicist John Valk, Canadian philosophy scholar Kate Valk (born 1956), American artist Mall Valk (1935–1976), Estonian ceramist Mats Valk (born 1996), Dutch Rubik's cube speedsolver Ria Valk (born 1941), Dutch singer Rüdiger Valk (born 1945), German mathematician Veronika Valk (born 1976), Estonian architect William Valk (1806–1879), American Civil War surgeon and politician
See also Valka Van der Valk Pieter de Valk (1584–1625), Dutch Golden Age painter
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