Hawley
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Person from one of several English places called Hawley, variously meaning ‘holy glade’, ‘clearing with a large house’, or ‘clearing with a mound’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Hawley is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 1.4Kas Holly(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 1.4Kas Holly
- IEIreland≈1 in 1.5Kas Holly
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Hawley itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #731 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 578 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈780,000 named Holly, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Australia, est., as Holly
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Holly in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 5 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)
Person from one of several English places called Hawley, variously meaning ‘holy glade’, ‘clearing with a large house’, or ‘clearing with a mound’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hawley 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈780,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Holly | 50 |
| US United States | #299 | 182,754as Holly | 1 in 1.8K | 182K | Holly | 578 |
| GB United Kingdom | #276 | ≈47,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 52 | Holly | 327 |
| CA Canada | #285 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 15 | Holly | 244 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | — | Holly | 22 |
| AU Australia | #271 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 76 | Holly | 233 |
| IE Ireland | #199 | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 213 | Holly | 95 |
| NZ New Zealand | #241 | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 24 | Holly | 136 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); CSO — Irish Babies Names (1998–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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Hawley is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from Hawley (Hampshire or Kent), or a lost Hawley in Sheffield, Yorkshire; first attested John de Hauleye 1275 SRWo
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, Cogns. (of 1): Ger.: Habich(t), Habich, Hebich, Habig. Low Ger.: Habeck, Hawicke, Havecke, Hafke. Dan., Norw.: H0(e)g(h). Swed.: Ho(o)k. Dims, (of 1): Eng.: Hawkett, Hawkitt; Hawkin. Patr. (from 1): Eng.: Hawkes (or a var. of 2).
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In English, A placename:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Joseph Roswell Hawleyb. 1826USUnion Army general, politician (1826–1905)
- James H. Hawleyb. 1847USAmerican politician (1847-1929)
- Wanda Hawleyb. 1895USAmerican actress (1895-1963)
- Elizabeth Hawleyb. 1923USjournalist and chronicler of Himalayan expeditions (1923–2018)
- Steven Hawleyb. 1951USAmerican astronaut
- Tommy Tubervilleb. 1954USnot in their usual nameAmerican football coach and politician (born 1954)
- John F. Hawleyb. 1958USAmerican astrophysicist
- Noah Hawleyb. 1967USAmerican television writer and producer (born 1967)
- Richard Hawleyb. 1967GBEnglish guitarist, singer-songwriter and producer
- Josh Hawleyb. 1979USAmerican lawyer and politician (born 1979)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 30 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 18K | #1,993 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 18K | #1,987 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 17K | #2,005 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 186 | #28,745 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 125 | #28,745 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1918 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1930 | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1924 | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1922 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1915 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1982 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1923 | 8 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hawley mean, and where does it come from?
- Person from one of several English places called Hawley, variously meaning ‘holy glade’, ‘clearing with a large house’, or ‘clearing with a mound’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Hawley have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 779 thousand people named Holly in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Hawley?
- In the United States, the national register counted 182,754 people named Holly in 2020, about 1 in 1.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Hawley compared with other names?
- In Ireland, Hawley is the 199th most common given name of 14,976 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hawleyThe 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, “Hawley” — the 199th most common given name in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.