Kermit Hawley

(male) Mainly U.S.: of Irish and Manx origin, from the Gaelic surname form Mac Dhiarmaid ‘son of Diarmaid’ (see Dermot). The name was borne by a son of the American president Theodore Roosevelt, and by a frog puppet, created in the 1970s for Jim Henson's Muppet Show.

English and Scottish: habitational name from any of various places called Hawley. One in Kent is named with Old English hālig ‘holy’ + lēah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’, and would therefore have once been the site of a sacred grove. One in Hampshire has as its first element Old English h(e)all ‘hall’, ‘manor’, or healh ‘nook’, ‘corner of land’. However, the surname is common in South Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire, and may principally derive from a lost place near Sheffield named Hawley, from Old Norse haugr ‘mound’ + Old English lēah ‘clearing’.