Waterfall Family History
Waterfall Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Waterfall a place in Staffordshire named from Old English wætergefall ‘place where a water course disappears below ground’. There is another place so called in Guisborough in North Yorkshire and a lost Waterfall in Pontefract Yorkshire both of which may also have contributed to the surname.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022