Updated February 19, 2024

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Boy name origins & meanings

  • Old English : Falcon

Boy name variations

Hawke

Hawke

- 15% this year
Masculine
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Hawkin

Hawkin

- 13% this year
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Hawkins

Hawkins

+ 12% this year
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How Popular Is The Name Hawk

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Devon) : 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.
  • English (Devon) : 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.