Last Name STALKER

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Meaning The stalke, a huntsman, a fowler. 'Stalk,' to use a stalking-horse for obtaining wild-fowl and game.
A fowler who goes warily and softly in pursuit of his game; one who walks on 'stilts' over ditches in pursuit of moor-fowl. "The fowler is employed his limed twigs to set, One underneath his horse to get a shoot doth 'stalk,' Another over dykes upon his stilts doth walk." - Drayton.
Origin English, Scottish, Irish

Rank 9,834 (2000 US census) 9,767 (1990 US census)
Count 3,033 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 91.16%, or 2765 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 1.19%, or 36 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.73%, or 22 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 3.26%, or 99 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.62%, or 49 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 2.04%, or 62 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


Scottish surnames

 Scottish last names divide themselves into two classes: Highland and Lowland.
In very few instances the names were considered before the eleventh century. They became significantly better known only since the thirteen century.
Just like English and other last n...

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