# Walke (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/walke/  
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 | occupational, named after the work an ancestor did |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,014 |
| US rank (2010) | 24,629 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 304,483 people |
| Change since 2000 | -1.7% (1,032 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As a German occupational surname for a fuller, from the verb walken (“to full, tan”), compare Walkmühle (English waulkmill). * As an English surname, variant of Walk.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Walke 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) | 80% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 12% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.2% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 3.0% |

## Similar surnames

Wilke, Wilkie, Walk, Wilkey, Walko, Walck, Welke, Wallace, Walz, Wales, Walshe, Wells.

## 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.