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)’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈhɔz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
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 14K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 17K
- CACanada≈1 in 25K
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)
- Sources
- 393 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
9,908 people, 2010
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)’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(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 | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 14K | listed | Hawes | 207 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 145K | — | Hawes | 17 |
| CA Canada | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Hawes | 120 |
| AU Australia | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Hawes | 136 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Hawes | 63 |
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)
- William Hawesb. 1736GBEnglish physician (1736-1808)
- Richard Hawesb. 1797USUnited States Representative; Second Confederate governor of Kentucky (1797-1877)
- Albert Gallatin Hawesb. 1804USAmerican politician (1804-1849)
- Harry B. Hawesb. 1869USAmerican politician (1869-1947)
- Charles Hawesb. 1889USAmerican maritime writer (1889-1923)
- Hampton Hawesb. 1928USAmerican jazz pianist (1928–1977)
- James Hawesb. 1960GBBritish writer (born 1960)
- Keeley Hawesb. 1976GBBritish actress
- Spencer Hawesb. 1988USAmerican basketball player (born 1988)
- James Hawesb. 2000GBBritish television director
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)
Attested in 26 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 9.9K | #3,590 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 9.6K | #3,626 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 9.5K | #3,437 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- 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)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 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?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhɔz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Hawes have the most bearers?
- 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.
- 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.
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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 2026-10-10.