Falle

surname · Latin script

Meaning: inflection of fallar:

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Falle is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. In Jersey it is the 45th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 100K(inferred from the name graph)
  • INIndia≈1 in 205K
  • JEJersey≈1 in 3.1K

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.

India (inferred from the name graph)

≈6,500 people, est.

Sources
90 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 3.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Jersey, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

inflection of fallar:

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Falle 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 Falle is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India—≈6,500 est.≈1 in 205K—Falle16
CI Côte d’Ivoire—≈2,400 est.≈1 in 12K594Falle5
PH Philippines—≈1,100 est.≈1 in 100K—Falle23
SN Senegal—≈570 est.≈1 in 28K—Falle6
ID Indonesia—≈450 est.≈1 in 599K—Falle6
AT Austria—≈83 est.≈1 in 106K—Falle2
AR Argentina—491 in 928K49——
JE Jersey#45≈32 est.≈1 in 3.1K—Falle5

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: nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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)

Falle is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Argentina, United States, Portugal

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Fallé

  • German surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Austria, Germany, Philippines, United States

    Also written Fälle, Faelle

  • Norwegian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, United States, Denmark, Philippines

    Languages: Norwegian, Danish, Swedish

    Also written Fallé

  • French (Côte d’Ivoire) surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Côte d’Ivoire

    Also written Fallé

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Fallé

  • Arabic surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kuwait, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, Morocco

    Also written Fälle

28 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)

Falle 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 German, trap

    as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German

  • In Norwegian Bokmål, a slanted metal piece in a door lock that moves when pressing the handle.

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

  • In Latin, second-person singular present active imperative of fallō

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

  • In Welsh, perhaps, maybe (colloquial form of efallai)

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

  • In Norwegian Nynorsk, neuter singular of fallen

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

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)

16001700180019002000Philip Falle, b. 1656Bertram Falle, 1st Baron Portsea, b. 1859Philip Falle, b. 1885Anton Falle, b. 1886Sam Falle, b. 1919Al Falle, b. 1943P. R. Falle, b. 1944Cynthia Jean Falle, b. 1947Keith Falle, b. 1952Natasha Falle, b. 1973

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 10 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Falle
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CI Côte d’Ivoirenomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies—594#842
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—49—

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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 Falle mean, and where does it come from?
inflection of fallar: Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Falle have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 6.5 thousand people named Falle in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled falle.
How common is the name Falle?
In Argentina, the national register counted 49 people named Falle, about 1 in 928 thousand residents.
How common is Falle compared with other names?
In Jersey, Falle is the 45th most common surname of 55 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Falle” — the 45th most common surname in Jersey. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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