Name profile

Fallon

From an Irish surname that was an Anglicized form of the Irish Gaelic Ó Fallamháin, itself derived from the given name Fallamhán meaning "leader".

Usage languagesEnglish
US rank (2025)#778

Meaning and history

From the Irish surname Ó Fallamháin, an Anglicized form of the Gaelic name derived from Fallamhán meaning “leader,” Fallon became more widely used in the 1980s after being featured as a character name on the soap opera Dynasty.

Popularity over timeUS births · girls
20062006: 187 births, rank #1,278
2007: 218 births, rank #1,166
2008: 193 births, rank #1,286
2009: 185 births, rank #1,307
2010: 195 births, rank #1,234
20112011: 202 births, rank #1,189
2012: 207 births, rank #1,188
2013: 234 births, rank #1,062
2014: 252 births, rank #1,030
2015: 226 births, rank #1,126
20162016: 243 births, rank #1,074
2017: 219 births, rank #1,131
2018: 237 births, rank #1,071
2019: 274 births, rank #960
2020: 311 births, rank #864
20212021: 393 births, rank #727
2022: 409 births, rank #715
2023: 422 births, rank #688
2024: 382 births, rank #737
20252025: 349 births, rank #778

Fallon moved from #738 to #779 for girls between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 1982, with 611 births.