Hawk

Hawk is the 2,077th most common surname in the United States, shared by 16,951 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 17,600.

By the numbers

People: 16,951
Rank: 2,077th
How common: 1 in 17,600
Per 100,000: 5.7

Where the name comes from

As an English surname, occupational surname for a hawker. This may have been inherited from Middle English hauek (“hawk”), from Old English hafoc.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Hawk described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 81.9%
Black, not Hispanic 7.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 2.8%
Hispanic or Latino 2.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Hawk

Tony Hawk (born 1968)American professional skateboarder and actor

People named Hawk with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Hawk

Also a first name

Hawk has been given to 989 American babies as a first name since 1982, peaking in 2017. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.