Hawke
surname · Latin script
Meaning: (i) breeder and trainer of hawks, or a nickname for someone thought to resemble a hawk; (ii) person who lives in a nook of land
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈhɔk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hawke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 39K(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 637K
- USUnited States1 in 20Kas Hawk
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 Hawke 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 24 (measured from records)
- 1 in 39K (inferred from the name graph)
16,884 named Hawk, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Guyana
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 and Хоук in RU Russia.
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)
(i) breeder and trainer of hawks, or a nickname for someone thought to resemble a hawk; (ii) person who lives in a nook of land.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hawke 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 | 16,884as Hawk | 1 in 20K | 17K | Hawk | 17 |
| GY Guyana | 19 | 1 in 39K | 19 | — | — |
| RU Russia | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 15M | — | Хоук | 24 |
| CR Costa Rica | 8 | 1 in 637K | 8 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 8as Houk | 1 in 1.3M | 8 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 6as Hawk | 1 in 2M | 6 | — | — |
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; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; MVČR — living population register 2017; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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)
Hawke 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, Robert J.L., Prime minister of
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Australia
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In enm, alternative form of hauk
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)
- Edward Hawkeb. 1705GBRoyal Navy admiral (1705-1781)
- Bob Hawkeb. 1929AUAustralian politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Australia (1929-2019)
- Hazel Hawkeb. 1929AUfirst wife of Bob Hawke (1929–2013)
- Neil Hawkeb. 1939AUcricketer (1939-2000)
- Allan Hawkeb. 1948AUAustralian diplomat
- Simon Hawkeb. 1951USAmerican writer
- Ethan Hawkeb. 1970USAmerican actor and writer (born 1970)
- Alex Hawkeb. 1977AUAustralian politician
- Maya Hawkeb. 1998USAmerican actress
- Levon Hawkeb. 2002USAmerican actor
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 17 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.7K | #16,441 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.6K | #17,290 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.6K | #16,517 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 19 | #606 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 8 | #6,433 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 Hawke mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) breeder and trainer of hawks, or a nickname for someone thought to resemble a hawk; (ii) person who lives in a nook of land. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Hawke?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhɔk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Hawke have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 17 thousand people named Hawk, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Hawke most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hawke is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 39 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Hawke?
- In Guyana, the national register counted 19 people named Hawke in 2025, about 1 in 39 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hawkeThe 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, “Hawke”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.