Hàwk
surname · Latin script
Hàwk is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English hauk, hauke, hawke, havek, from Old English hafoc (“hawk”), from Proto-West Germanic *habuk, from Proto-Germanic *habukaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kopuǵos, perhaps ultimately der.
- SGSingapore≈1 in 15Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 20K
- CACanada≈1 in 24K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 410 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
16,884 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Singapore, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Hawk in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 2 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Middle Englishhauk(measured from records)
- Old Englishhafoc“hawk”(measured from records)
- Proto-West Germanic*habuk(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*habukaz(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*kopuǵos(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European root*keh₂p-“seize”(measured from records)
From Middle English hauk, hauke, hawke, havek, from Old English hafoc (“hawk”), from Proto-West Germanic *habuk, from Proto-Germanic *habukaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kopuǵos, perhaps ultimately derived from *keh₂p- (“seize”). See also West Frisian hauk, German Low German Haavke, Dutch havik, German Habicht, Swedish hök, Danish høg, Norwegian Bokmål hauk, Norwegian Nynorsk hauk, Faroese heykur, Icelandic haukur, Finnish haukka, Estonian haugas; also Latin capys, capus (“bird of prey”), Albanian gabonjë, shkabë (“eagle”), Russian ко́бец (kóbec, “falcon”), Polish kobuz (“Eurasian Hobby”)).
Cited for this meaning 7
- A concise dictionary of first names
- A dictionary of surnames
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hàwk counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 16,884 | 1 in 20K | 17K | Hawk | 410 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 28K | listed | Hawk | 92 |
| CA Canada | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 24K | 1 | Hawk | 73 |
| AU Australia | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 39K | 1 | Hawk | 49 |
| SG Singapore | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Hawk | 10 |
16,884 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hàwk mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English hauk, hauke, hawke, havek, from Old English hafoc (“hawk”), from Proto-West Germanic *habuk, from Proto-Germanic *habukaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kopuǵos, perhaps ultimately der… Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and A dictionary of surnames and 5 other sources.
- In which country does Hàwk have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 17 thousand people named Hàwk, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hawk.
- How common is the name Hàwk?
- In the United States, the national register counted 16,884 people named Hàwk in 2010, about 1 in 20 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/h%C3%A0wkThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hàwk”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.