Valk
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. There were 4380 people with the surname in the Netherlands in 2007. The name Valk in Estonia may be related to the town Valka.As of 2014, 61.8% of all known bearers of the surname Valk were residents of the Netherlands, 14.3% of the United States, 8.7% of Estonia, 3.5% of Germany, 1.8% of Canada, 1.7% of Brazil, 1.3% of Russia, 1.3% of Australia, 1.3% of New Zealand and 1.0% of France.
In the Netherlands, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average in the following provinces:
- 1. Overijssel
- 2. South Holland
- 3. Friesland
- 4. North Holland
People
- Curtis Valk, Canadian ice hockey player
- Frederick Valk, German actor
- Garry Valk, Canadian ice hockey player
- Heiki Valk, Estonian archaeologist
- Heinz Valk, Estonian artist, caricaturist and politician
- Henry S. Valk, American physicist
- Kate Valk, American artist
- Mats Valk, Dutch Rubik's cube speedsolver
- Ria Valk, Dutch singer
- Rüdiger Valk, German mathematician
- Veronika Valk, Estonian architect
- William Valk, American Civil War surgeon and politician
