Walklate Family History
Walklate Name Meaning
from Middle English walken ‘to walk wander go about outdoors’ + the adverb late which can mean ‘slowly reluctantly’ or ‘in the evening’. In the days before street lighting to go walking at dusk was not altogether safe or respectable while nightwalking was the preserve of criminals and nightwatchmen.
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016