Given name & surname
Falco
“resembling a falcon; one who works with falcons”
Falco is used as a given name and a surname. One Latin interpretation is “resembling a falcon; one who works with falcons.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Latin interpretation is “resembling a falcon; one who works with falcons.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Latin.
How it developed
From Romance Falco, from Italian Falco, from Catalan Falcó.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1924. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Falco through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 25
- 25 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2014
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 108 as a first name in 2020; 4,300 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Falco’s family of names
Falco has a related form in Falcon. Falco has a related form in Falk. Falco has a related form in Falconer.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 12
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Falconvariant
- Defalcovariant · English
- Difalcovariant · English
- Faulknervariant
- Faulconnervariant
- Faulconervariant
- Falknervariant
- Falkenvariant
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People named Falco
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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