Find out how popular the last name Hawkinson is in the United States and learn more about the meaning, history, and race and ethnic origin of people in America who are named Hawkinson.

Hawkinson, like all of the last names we have data for, is identified by the U.S. Census Bureau as a surname which has more than 100 occurrences in the United States in the Decennial Census survey. The most recent statistics we have for the Hawkinson surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Hawkinson in America

Hawkinson is the 10387th most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Hawkinson surname appeared 3,102 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 people would have the surname Hawkinson.

We can also compare 2010 data for Hawkinson to data from the previous census in 2000. The table below contains all of the statistics for both years in a side-by-side comparison.

The history of the last name Hawkinson

The surname Hawkinson is of English and Scandinavian origin. It is a patronymic surname, meaning it derives from the name of an ancestor. The name originated in the Danelaw region of England, areas colonized by Danish Vikings in the 9th and 10th centuries.

Hawkinson likely emerged as a variant of the more common surname Hawkins, which itself derives from the Old English personal name Hafoc, meaning "hawk." The -son suffix denotes "son of." Thus, Hawkinson would have originally referred to the son of someone named Hafoc or Hawk.

Early recorded instances of the name can be found in medieval English records. A John Haukynesson is listed in the Pipe Rolls of Yorkshire in 1379. The surname also appears as Haukynsone in the Subsidy Rolls of Lancashire in 1523.

Variant spellings found in historical documents include Haukineson, Haukinsone, and Haukynson. These reflect the name's evolution from Old Norse to Middle English orthography and pronunciation.

Notable individuals bearing the Hawkinson surname include William Hawkinson (1619-1704), an early English settler in Maryland. John Hawkinson (1742-1831) was a prominent landowner and militia captain during the American Revolutionary War.

Elizabeth Hawkinson (1756-1824) was among the first European women to cross the Appalachian Mountains into Kentucky. Andrew Hawkinson (1797-1872) represented Illinois in the US House of Representatives from 1847 to 1849.

In Sweden, Carl Hawkinson (1810-1894) was a noted entomologist who made significant contributions to the study of Scandinavian insect species. His collections are housed at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Hawkinson

We also have some data on the ancestry of people with the surname Hawkinson.

The below race categories are the modified race categories used in the Census Bureau's population estimates program. All people were categorized into six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups:

1. White only
2. Black only
3. American Indian and Alaskan Native only
4. Asian and Pacific Islander only
5. Hispanic
6. Two or More Races

For the most recent 2010 census data, the race/ethnic origin breakdown for Hawkinson was:

Note: Any fields showing (S) means the data was suppressed for privacy so that the data does not in any way identify any specific individuals.

Since we have data from the previous census in 2000, we can also compare the values to see how the popularity of Hawkinson has changed in the 10 years between the two census surveys.

Data source

The last name data and ethnic breakdown of last names is sourced directly from the Decennial Census survey, conducted every 10 years by the United States Census Bureau.

The history and meaning of the name Hawkinson was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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