Fallon
Masculine · “a leader”
Fallon is given to both — 619 boys and 11,634 girls since 1880. See Fallon as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Fallon is an Irish surname that took a long detour. It means a leader, it belonged to a Connacht family, and it would probably have stayed a quiet surname name if a 1981 television series had not given it to a woman — after which it was a girls' name for a generation. Its male use is the later development, and this record peaks in 2015.
How old is the name Fallon?
Fallon first appears in US birth records in 1972 — 53 years ago. The typical Fallon is a kid of about 11 — this name's wave is very recent. About 600 people named Fallon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Fallon most popular?
Fallon peaked in 2015, reaching #3085 nationally. Today it ranks #5861, 2,776 places below that high. See the whole 2015 chart.
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Where it comes from
From fallamhan to Fallon
The story of Fallon
The O Fallamhain were chiefs of a small Connacht lordship and appear in the Irish annals from the eleventh century. The surname anglicized as Fallon and traveled to America with nineteenth-century Irish emigration. Its career as a given name is entirely modern and has two phases. In 1981 the television series Dynasty introduced a character named Fallon Carrington, and American use of the name on girls jumped immediately — one of the sharpest single-program effects in the record. That use faded through the 1990s. The male use, which fits the surname's own gender neutrality and the broader surname-name fashion, appears later and peaks in the 2010s.
Meaning
a leader; one who commands
Irish O Fallamhain is built on fallamhan, 'leader, ruler, one in charge', from a root meaning to rule or govern. The surname belonged to a family in what is now County Roscommon, and their territory was known as Clann Uadach. The derivation is settled and unusually clean for an anglicized Irish surname, where the original is often unrecoverable.
How the name formed
- fallamhan
- O Fallamhain
- Fallon
Related forms: O Fallamhain · Falon
Pronouncing Fallon
FAL-un
Two syllables, stress on the first, with the short a of pal and the ending reduced to a schwa. There is no competing saying, and the spelling gives English readers no difficulty.
Nicknames for Fallon
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1972
- Most boys named
- 201537 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3085reached in 2015
- Change vs 2024
- −31.8%15 in 2025, from 22
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Fallon in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- O Fallamhain in Irish — related form
- Falon in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: California.
Fallons among us
people named Fallon are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 113,872 born in 2025 was named Fallon
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Uel test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Fallon's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Uel climbed just as high around 1915, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Uel's path sketches the road Fallon is walking now.
Fallon sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Fallon beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Fallon in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is a single word and unusually well documented for an Irish surname.
- The pronunciation is obvious on sight to any English reader.
- It works on either sex, which suits families who do not want a sex-marked name.
- It was strongly a girls' name in the 1980s, and older Americans remember it that way.
- It is easily heard as Colin, Dylan or Fallow.
- The television association is specific and will be mentioned by anyone over fifty.
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Masculine · #5861 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Fallons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Fallon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Fallon in 2025?
- Fallon ranks #5861 among US boy names in 2025, with 15 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Fallon?
- About 1 in every 113,872 US boys born in 2025 was named Fallon — 15 in all.
- Will my child share the name Fallon with classmates?
- Fallon will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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