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hawkes Name Meaning and History

English (mainly central and southeastern England): patronymic from a personal name (see Hawk 1), or a variant of Hawk 2.

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Distribution of hawkes Families in the US in 1920
Number of hawkes families
 81-159
 28-80
 1-27
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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