NOTE TO MODS–This Thread is not about Star Wars.
Does anybody in real life carry the name Skywalker?
Has any family in RL carried the name Skywalker, pre-Star Wars?
Lucas made it up. The hero was originally going to be called Annakin Starkiller, which he also made up.
Anywho.com (a nationwide collection of White Pages maintained by AT&T) lists 29 Skywalkers in the US.
Although most are listed as Luke Skywalker, so take it with a grain of salt.
Here’s a death notice for someone named Carla L. Skywalker.
According to the Social Security Death Index, she’s the only Skywalker to die since they’ve been keeping records.
There’s nothing preventing Star Wars geeks from taking the lastname.
When I worked at a library in Michigan, I had a person named Luke Skywalker get a new library card. I assume that the name had been changed. They had proof of identification(driver’s license) and everything.
He had a kid, too. Scott, I think. Scott Skywalker.
Quatermass is however a real surname, as is Blackadder.
“Skywalker” seems to pop up a few times pre-Star Wars; there was a biographical novel about this guy titled John Howard Payne, Skywalker, pubished in 1953; and there’s this reference from a few years before the movie came out to an American Indian whose name (Mamanti) can apparently be translated as “Sky Walker” or “Skywalker”.
So, unlike his namesake, we have evidence he is no longer a virgin? Actually, since you never collected a DNA sample from your patron and his supposed progeny and ran a comparison…
And I gotta say, Skywalker is so much more evocative than Starkiller. And much more apropos for the character. Lucas got a lot of things right. At least back in the 70’s. 
A local radio station paid someone to legally change her name to Obi Wan Kenobi. She filed all the legal papers and got $2000 or so. I don’t know if she changed it back later or not. This was in 1999 when Episode I came out.
It was awfully handy for Interplay, too, since the first Kilrathi ace in Wing Commander was named Bhurak Starkiller.
Well, in the SNES version, but I assume he was in the PC ones too.
What did I miss? Why is it so important to establish that this is not about Star Wars?
So it’s not moved to Cafe Society by mistake.
I’m going to assume that Scott Skywalker will take the opposite path in life from Scott Evil and turn to the Dark Side in rebellion against his father…
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, it occurs fewer than 100 times, possibly 0.
“Solo” has 747 occurrences, “Yoda” 190, and “Vader” occurs 718 times :eek:
http://www.census.gov/genealogy/www/freqnames2k.html
If you count “extended universe” stuff, Luke did marry and have a son.
It’s actually a family tradition to turn to the Dark Side, or at least struggle with it.
That one’s not too surprising, as Vader is Dutch for “Father.” There’s plenty of Dutch with that last name.
Lucas made nothing up : Sky-walker is one of the many titles/kennings of the Norse god Loki. So, it’s litterally older than steam. Which is not to say Lucas cribbed it off the sagas either, for all I know he may have re-discovered it on his own, after all it’s a pretty cool name/title.
Still, in the interest of nitpick… I mean fighting ignorance, and all that.
The English transliteration of a Norse word is veritably older than water vapor?