Family name origins & meanings
- South German : habitational name for someone from Ober- or Unter- Fall near Triberg in the Black Forest.
- South German : topographical name for someone living by a waterfall or the site of a landslide, from Middle High German val ‘fall’, ‘waterfall’, ‘landslide’.
- South German : in some cases it may derive from Falter, through assimilation of the consonants.
- South German : unexplained.