Walker (surname)

Walker (surname)

Walker is a surname of English and Scottish origin. This name may signify either a fuller or an officer whose duty consisted of walking or inspecting a certain space of forest ground.

128,048 people have the surname Walker in the United Kingdom, making it the 12th-most common surname. As of the 2000 U.S. Census, 501,307 people had the surname Walker, making it the 28th most common surname in America.

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Famous quotes containing the word walker:

    To me, the black black woman is our essential mother—the blacker she is the more us she is—and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
    —Alice Walker (b. 1944)