The hawkins Surname
hawkins Name Meaning and History
- English: patronymic from the Middle English personal name Hawkin, a diminutive of Hawk 1 with the Anglo-Norman French hypocoristic suffix -in.
- English: in the case of one family (see note below), this is a variant of Hawkinge, a habitational name from a place in Kent, so called from Old English Hafocing ‘hawk place’.
- Irish: sometimes used as an English equivalent of Gaelic Ó hEacháin (see Haughn).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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