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 (895 people) 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:

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