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Walker is a surname meaning either a fuller, derived from the Middle English ''walkcere'', meaning "a fuller of cloth", or an officer whose duty consisted of walking or inspecting a certain space of forest ground. The origin may be Dutch or German as Walker is the modern German for 'Fuller', with weavers fleeing religious persecution in North West Europe settling along the North Eastern English coast (cf the town of Walker near Newcastle). With close to 100,000 bearers, Walker is the 18th most common surname in England.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Forebears )〕 As of the 2000 U.S. Census, 501,307 people had the surname Walker, making it the 28th most common surname in America.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Genealogy Data: Frequently Occurring Surnames from Census 2000 - U.S. Census Bureau )〕 It is the 14th most common surname in Australia, with 26,688 people as of 2007. ==Notable people==
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