Hawkins Family History
Hawkins Name Meaning
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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Name Distribution of Hawkins Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Hawkins families
 583 - 1,164  195 - 582 |
 1 - 194  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Hawkins families
|
2,005 - 4,008 669 - 2,004 |
1 - 668 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hawkins families
|
39 - 76 14 - 38 |
1 - 13 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Hawkins Family Origin
Hawkins Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Hawkins
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Hawkins Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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