Hawkins
Masculine · “son of little Harry”
Hawkins is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 918 boys against 15 girls since 1880.
Hawkins is an English surname built on a medieval pet name — Hawkin, a diminutive of Harry, which was the everyday English form of Henry. The bird is a coincidence.
How old is the name Hawkins?
Hawkins first appears in US birth records in 1914 — 111 years ago. The typical Hawkins is a kid of about 8 — this name's wave is very recent. About 900 people named Hawkins are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Hawkins most popular?
Hawkins peaked in 2016, reaching #1754 nationally. Today it ranks #3513, 1,759 places below that high. See the whole 2016 chart.
Where it comes from
From Harry to Hawkins
The story of Hawkins
Medieval England made pet names with the -kin ending — Wilkin, Perkin, Hawkin — and each hardened into a surname. Hawkins is common in the west of England and reached America with colonial settlement. Its use as a given name is recent and belongs with Hendrix, Jennings and Brooks; the hawk inside it is a large part of the appeal even though it is probably not the origin.
Meaningscholars disagree
son of little Harry
The usual derivation makes Hawkin a diminutive of Hawk, itself a pet form of Harry or Henry. A second account takes the byname directly from the bird, given to a person for keenness or for keeping hawks. Both are attested in medieval records.
How the name formed
- Harry
- Hawkin
- Hawkins
Related forms: Hawkin · Hawke
Pronouncing Hawkins
HAW-kinz
Two syllables, first stressed. There is no variation.
Nicknames for Hawkins
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1914
- Most boys named
- 201688 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1754reached in 2016
- Change vs 2024
- −8.6%32 in 2025, from 35
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Hawkins in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Hawkin in English — related form
- Hawke in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Tennessee, California.
Hawkinss among us
people named Hawkins are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 53,377 born in 2025 was named Hawkins
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Dennison test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Hawkins's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Dennison climbed just as high around 1949, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Dennison's path sketches the road Hawkins is walking now.
Hawkins sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Hawkins is headed
Hawkins is easing off slowly — about 22% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Hawkins beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Hawkins in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Hawk is a short form that is strong, current and completely familiar.
- Read correctly on sight by every English speaker.
- A documented medieval English surname behind it rather than a modern invention.
- The bird is what everyone will hear, and it is probably not the origin.
- It reads as a surname to people meeting it in front of another one.
- An Elizabethan seafarer of the surname was a slave trader, which some will know.
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Frequently asked
- How many Hawkinss are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 900 people named Hawkins are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Hawkins in 2025?
- Hawkins ranks #3513 among US boy names in 2025, with 32 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Hawkins?
- About 1 in every 53,377 US boys born in 2025 was named Hawkins — 32 in all.
- Will my child share the name Hawkins with classmates?
- Hawkins will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Hawkins
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