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 (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:
 * 1. Overijssel (1:1,950)
 * 2. South Holland (1:2,187)
 * 3. Friesland (1:2,277)
 * 4. North Holland (1:3,163)

People

 * Curtis Valk (born 1993), Canadian ice hockey player
 * Frederick Valk (1895–1956), German actor
 * Garry Valk (born 1967), Canadian ice hockey player
 * Heiki Valk (born 1959), Estonian archaeologist
 * Heinz Valk (born 1936), Estonian artist, caricaturist and politician
 * Henry S. Valk (born 1929), American physicist
 * Kate Valk (born 1956), American artist
 * Mall Valk (1935–1976), Estonian ceramist
 * Mats Valk (born 1996), Dutch Rubik's cube speedsolver
 * Ria Valk (born 1941), Dutch singer
 * Rüdiger Valk (born 1945), German mathematician
 * Veronika Valk (born 1976), Estonian architect
 * William Valk (1806–1879), American Civil War surgeon and politician