Folca
Folca is a short form of an Anglo-Saxon masculine name containing folc (folk).
Variants:
Folco [Joseph Stevenson 1841 Liber Vitæ Ecclesiæ Dunelmensis, page 13].
Focga [William Searle 1897 Onomasticon Anglo-Saxonicum, page 242].
Focca [William Duignan 1905 Worcestershire Place Names, page 63].
Folc(a) [Sir Allen Mawer, Sir Frank Stenton, & John Gover 1930 English Place-Name Society 7: 285].
Folca [Sir Allen Mawer, Sir Frank Stenton, & John Gover 1930 English Place-Name Society 7: 411].
Fylca [Sir Allen Mawer, Sir Frank Stenton, & John Gover 1930 English Place-Name Society 7: 411].
Stem:
Fᴏʟᴄ = The ꜰᴏʟᴋ, people, common people, multitude, a people, a tribe, a family [Joseph Bosworth 1838 A Dictionary of the Anglo-Saxon Language, 1st edition, page 113].
Suffix:
— a = termination of pet names, such as Cutha for Cuthwine or Cuthwulf [William Searle 1897 Onomasticon Anglo-Saxonicum, page 1].
Evidence:
The place-name Fochintone, recorded in 1086, is believed to mean “Folca’s farm” [Sir Allen Mawer, Sir Frank Stenton, & John Gover 1930 English Place-Name Society 7: 411].
