as a Last Name
- 18,782
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Hawk
Meaning & Origins
English (Devon): 1. from Middle English hauek ‘hawk’, applied as a metonymic occupational name for a hawker (see Hawker), a name denoting a tenant who held land in return for providing hawks for his lord, or a nickname for someone supposedly resembling a hawk. There was an Old English personal name (originally a byname) H(e)afoc ‘hawk’, which persisted into the early Middle English period as a personal name and may therefore also be a source. 2. topographic name for someone who lived in an isolated nook, from Middle English halke (derived from Old English halh + the diminutive suffix -oc), or a habitational name from some minor place named with this word, such as Halke in Sheldwich, Kent.
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Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 18,782
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Guam
- has the most people named Hawk per capita
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