Hawthorne
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Person who lives by a hawthorn hedge or bush, or person from Hawthorn, Durham (Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history])
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Hawthorne is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 16,758 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 17Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 18K
- USUnited States1 in 20K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 425 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
16,758 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)Person who lives by a hawthorn hedge or bush, or person from Hawthorn, Durham.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Hawthorne, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where the surname Hawthorne is found
(measured from records)Hawthorne 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 | 16,758 | 1 in 20K | 17K | Hawthorne | 425 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Hawthorne | 174 |
| CA Canada | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 1 | Hawthorne | 115 |
| AU Australia | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Hawthorne | 116 |
| BR Brazil | 77 | 1 in 2.7M | 77 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 10 | 1 in 587K | 10 | — | — |
16,758 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; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)Hawthorne 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, A topographic or habitational surname from Middle English for someone who lived near a hawthorn hedge or in a place with such a name.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Nathaniel, US writer
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Croatian, američki pripovjedač simbolično-alegorična stila ( Grimizno slovo , Kuća sa sedam zabata )
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)- Nathaniel Hawthorneb. 1804USAmerican author (1804–1864)
- Nigel Hawthorneb. 1929GBBritish actor (1929–2001)
- Elizabeth Hawthorneb. 1947NZNew Zealand actress
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)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hawthorne mean, and where does it come from?
- Person who lives by a hawthorn hedge or bush, or person from Hawthorn, Durham. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Hawthorne?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 17 thousand people named Hawthorne, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hawthorne. After it come United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Hawthorne?
- In the United States, the national register counted 16,758 people named Hawthorne in 2010, about 1 in 20 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hawthorneThe 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, “Hawthorne” — ranked 2083rd in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.