Hawking
surname · Latin script
Meaning: (i) from the Middle English male personal name Hawkin, literally ‘little Hawk (i)’; (ii) a different form of Hawkinge
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Hawking is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 120Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 340Kfew records
- USUnited States1 in 2M
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 142 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 122K (inferred from the name graph)
≈430 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)(i) from the Middle English male personal name Hawkin, literally ‘little Hawk (i)’; (ii) a different form of Hawkinge.
Cited for this meaning 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)Hawking 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 581K | — | Hawking | 2 |
| AU Australia | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 122K | — | Hawking | 64 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 335K | listed | Hawking | 84 |
| US United States | 164 | 1 in 2M | 441 | Hawking | 142 |
| PH Philippines | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Hawking | 2 |
| CA Canada | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 985K | — | Hawking | 18 |
| IE Ireland | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Hawking | 6 |
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; 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)Hawking 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, present participle and gerund of hawk
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Stephen, British theoretical physicist
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, 2. var. of Hawkinge.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In Czech, Hawking, a surname, most notably applying to the British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Croatian, engleski fizičar, postavio teoriju crnih rupa, objavio ključne teorijske radove o nastanku i razvoju Svemira
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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)- Tom Hawkingb. 1882AUAustralian rules footballer, born 1882
- George Hawkingb. 1902AUAustralian rules footballer
- Frank Hawkingb. 1905GBtropical disease expert (1905-1986)
- Fred Hawkingb. 1909AUAustralian rules footballer
- Isobel Eileen Hawkingb. 1915(1915-2013)
- Stephen Hawkingb. 1942GBBritish theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)
- Jane Wilde Hawkingb. 1944GBBritish author
- Robert Hawkingb. 1967British software engineer
- Lucy Hawkingb. 1969GBEnglish journalist and novelist
- Timothy Hawkingb. 1979son of Stephen Hawking
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)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 441 | #51,084 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 239 | #75,219 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 164 | #108,199 |
| 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 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Hawking mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) from the Middle English male personal name Hawkin, literally ‘little Hawk (i)’; (ii) a different form of Hawkinge. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Hawking have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 432 people named Hawking in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hawking.
- How common is the name Hawking?
- In the United States, the national register counted 164 people named Hawking in 2010, about 1 in 2.0 million residents.
What do you want to know about Hawking?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hawkingThe 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, “Hawking”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.