Given name & surname
Hawk
“resembling the bird of prey”
Hawk is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “resembling the bird of prey.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “resembling the bird of prey.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
How it developed
From Middle English hauek (“hawk”), from Old English hafoc, from Middle English halke (“isolated nook”), from Old English healh (“nook”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1982. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Hawk through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 989
- 989 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2017
- 87 babies
- 2025
- 19
- #5,099 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −44%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 19 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 5,099 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 43.7% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 87 in 2017. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 877 as a first name in 2020; 16,951 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Hawk’s family of names
Hawk has a related form in Hauk. Hawk has a related form in Hauke. Hawk has a related form in Hawke.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Hawk
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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