Falkingham Family History
Falkingham Name Meaning
from Folkingham (Lincs) which is recorded as Fulchingeham Folchingeham in 1086 and Folkyngham in 1115. The place-name means ‘homestead of the people of a man called Folca’ from an Old English personal name *Folca + the group-name suffix -ingas (genitive -inga-) + hām ‘homestead village’.
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016