Popularity of the last name by country
Colombia
- San Andrés y Providencia (73)
- Cundinamarca (6)
- Antioquia (2)
- Córdoba (1)
All countries
- United Kingdom (245,758)
- United States (153,161)
- Australia (10,652)
- Ireland (8,392)
- New Zealand (6,623)
- Canada (3,936)
- Unknown country (3,626)
- France (3,083)
- Netherlands (715)
- Germany (414)
- Mexico (373)
- Colombia (348)
- Italy (333)
- Belgium (320)
- Puerto Rico (254)
- Switzerland (242)
- Spain (206)
- India (189)
- South Africa (133)
- Indonesia (130)
- Argentina (100)
- Brazil (93)
- Sweden (75)
- Panama (66)
- Peru (66)
- Russian Federation (66)
- Trinidad and Tobago (64)
- China (58)
- Paraguay (58)
- Portugal (56)
- Turkey (53)
- Philippines (52)
- Greece (48)
- Norway (48)
- Denmark (44)
- Jamaica (43)
- Egypt (39)
- Gibraltar (37)
- Ukraine (32)
- Austria (28)
Origine of last name
HAWKINS : 1: English: variant of <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Hawkin">Hawkin</a> with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.2: English: habitational name with excrescent -s from Hawkinge (Kent). The placename derives from the Old English personal name Heafoc or Old English heafoc ‘hawk’ + the placename forming suffix -ing. This name has been assimilated to the patronymic surname in Devon from Sir John Hawkyns (1532–95) victor against the Spanish Armada (1588) who was a member of the Devon family of Hawkins a branch of a Kentish family from the village of Hawkinge. They held land in Plymouth as long ago as 1480.3: Irish: variant of <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Haughn">Haughn</a>.
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