# Walk (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/walk/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 4,460 |
| US rank (2010) | 7,470 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 69,225 people |
| Change since 2000 | +7.7% (4,140 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As a German surname, variant of Walke. * As an English surname, from the noun and verb walk.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Walk in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 84% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 10% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.1% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.7% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 1.0% |
| Two or more races | 1.4% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Walk in the United States.

## People named Walk

- Neal Walk, American basketball player (1948–2015)

## Similar surnames

Wilk, Wolk, Welk, Walko, Walck, Walke, Walsh, Walls, Wallis, Walz, Wales, Walch.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.