Valk
# 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
* 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
* Willem Valk (1898-1977), Dutch visual artist
* William Valk (1806–1879), American Civil War surgeon and politician
