Falcon

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Falcon is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. In Heard & McDonald Islands it is the 22nd most common surname. Recorded meaning: ‘falconer’; also from a medieval nickname for someone thought to resemble a falcon.

rarermore common
  • UYUruguay1 in 964(measured from records)
  • PEPeru≈1 in 1.8K
  • PYParaguay≈1 in 1.8K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Argentina (measured from records)

23,180 people

Sources
390 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 964 (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

‘falconer’; also from a medieval nickname for someone thought to resemble a falcon

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Falcon counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Falcon is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#29523,1801 in 2K23KFalcon91
PE Peru#278≈18,000 est.≈1 in 1.8K—Falcon87
US United States—15,1251 in 22K15KFalcon390
VE Venezuela#334≈14,000 est.≈1 in 2K—Falcon68
ES Spain#36813,4441 in 3.7K13KFalcon135
PY Paraguay#219≈4,100 est.≈1 in 1.8K—Falcon31
UY Uruguay#1833,5131 in 9643.5KFalcon38
HM Heard & McDonald Islands#22———Falcon1

23,180 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Falcon is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Catalan surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina

    Also written Falcón

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Falcón

  • Lao surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, Thailand, United States, Peru

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written Falcón, ฟอลคอน, Falcòn, ฟาลคอน, Faccon

  • Indonesian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, Indonesia, Philippines, United States

    Also written Falcón

  • Polish surname20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Slovakia, Peru

    Languages: Polish, Croatian, Slovak

    Also written Falcón, Falkon, Falcòn, Фалкон

64 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Falcon is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, from ME/OFr falcon, falcun ‘falcon’; nickname from the bird or metonymic for a falconer; first attested Reginald Falcun 1187

    as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames

  • In English, Any bird of the genus Falco, all of which are birds of prey.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • falcão; falcon

    as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

  • In Italian, forma reduzida de Falconeri.

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • In English, hawk genus

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000Cornélie Falcon, b. 1814Michael Falcon, b. 1888André Falcon, b. 1924Ruth Falcon, b. 1942Billy Falcon, b. 1956Jeffrey Falcon, b. 1962Jonah Falcon, b. 1970Jesse Falcon, b. 1971Rose Falcon, b. 1984

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 41 sources across 23 countries.

Official registers attesting Falcon
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—23K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201015K#2,398
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202015K#2,358
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—13K#407
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—13K#407
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200011K#2,899
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—3.5K—
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 6

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Falcon mean, and where does it come from?
‘falconer’; also from a medieval nickname for someone thought to resemble a falcon Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
What are other forms of the name Falcon?
In the etymology graph, Falconer is a form of the same name in other languages.
How common is the name Falcon?
In Argentina, the national register counted 23,180 people named Falcon, about 1 in 2.0 thousand residents.
How common is Falcon compared with other names?
In Argentina, Falcon is the 295th most common surname of 398,256 surnames recorded there.
In which country does Falcon have the most bearers?
In Argentina, the national register counted about 23 thousand people named Falcon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled falcon.
Where is Falcon most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Falcon is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 964 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Falcon” — the 295th most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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