• Walker

    Did you know that Sir Rodney Walker shares his surname with 2788 people out of every 1 million.  Global Snooker takes a look at snooker`s most popular names, starting with Walker.

    Global-snooker.com reckons that over the years, Walker has been the most popular name in snooker.

    www.surnamedb.com tells us...

    This ancient and distinguished surname, with over fifty entries in the "Dictionary of National Biography", and having no less than sixty Coats of Arms, is of Anglo-Scottish origins.

    It is either an occupational name for a fuller, or a locational name from a place called Walker in Northumberland. If occupational it derives from the pre 7th Century word "wealcere", and describes the work of the fuller to scour and thicken raw cloth in a large vessel containing a water mixture by trampling on it.

    Job descriptive surnames denoted the actual occupation of the namebearer, and became hereditary when a son followed the father into the same skill or business. If locational, Walker in Northumberland is recorded as Walkyr in the "Inquisitiones post mortem", dated 1268 from the Old Scandinavian word "kiarr", and means "The wall by the marsh".

    Walker's in Snooker...

    Allison – 110sport.tv presenter

    Darryn – former UK Junior Champion and professional in the early 90s

    Joel – English Under-14 champion last year... a star of the future?

    Liz – former company secretary at World Snooker

    Lee – lost to Alain Robidoux in the quarter-finals of the 1997 world championship

    Nick – He had a terrible haircut, but solid player in the Open era of the early 90s

    Rob – Getting the boys on the baize since 2007

    Sir Rodney – World Snooker's Head honcho

    Tom – snooker artist extraordinaire

    Walker Facts...

    According to britishsurnames.co.uk...

    There are 128048 Walker's in the UK...

    That is 27795 more than in 1881...

    Which is the 12th most popular name in the UK...

    Other Famous Walker's...

    Annie - Original Coronation Street character

    Crisps - mmm cheese and onion

    Murray - the legendary Formula 1 commentator

    Nigel - Olympic hurdler in 1984, Welsh Rugby International, Gladiator and Head of Communications at BBC Wales