Hawes
surname · Latin script
Meaning: (i) from the Anglo-Norman female personal name Haueis, of Germanic origin, meaning literally ‘battle-wide’; (ii) ‘son of Haw (i)’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈhɔːz/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Hawes is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 13K(inferred from the name graph)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 14Kfew records
- AUAustralia≈1 in 16K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 393 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
9,908 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)(i) from the Anglo-Norman female personal name Haueis, of Germanic origin, meaning literally ‘battle-wide’; (ii) ‘son of Haw (i)’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where the surname Hawes is found
(measured from records)Hawes 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 | 9,908 | 1 in 34K | 9.9K | Hawes | 393 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 13K | listed | Hawes | 207 |
| CA Canada | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Hawes | 120 |
| AU Australia | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Hawes | 136 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 80K | — | Hawes | 36 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Hawes | 63 |
| SG Singapore | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Hawes | 5 |
9,908 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; the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register. 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)Hawes is also recorded in 5 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 OFr Haueis, from OG Hadewidis 'battlewide'; first attested Hawis 1208 Cur (Sf)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
1. patronymic from Haw 2. 2. from a Norman female personal name, Haueis, from Germanic Haduwidis, composed of the elements hadu ‘strife’, ‘contention’ -i- widi ‘wide’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, 2. from a Norman female personal name, Haueis, from Gmc Haduwidis, composed of the elements hadu strife, contention + widi wide. Var.: Hawyes.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In English, female personal name, Haueis, from Gmc Haduwidis, com¬ posed of the elements hadu strife, contention + widi wide. Var.: Hawyes.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, A small market town and civil parish (served by Hawes and High Abbotside Parish Council) in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Richmondshire district (OS grid ref SD8789).
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)- Richard Hawesb. 1797USUnited States Representative; Second Confederate governor of Kentucky (1797-1877)
- Keeley Hawesb. 1976GBBritish actress
- Spencer Hawesb. 1988USAmerican basketball player (born 1988)
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)26 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hawes mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) from the Anglo-Norman female personal name Haueis, of Germanic origin, meaning literally ‘battle-wide’; (ii) ‘son of Haw (i)’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Hawes?
- In English /ˈhɔːz/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Hawes?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 9.9 thousand people named Hawes, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hawes. After it come United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and South Africa; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Hawes?
- In the United States, the national register counted 9,908 people named Hawes in 2010, about 1 in 34 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Hawes?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hawesThe 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, “Hawes”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.