In 2025, 19 US boys were named Hawk, making it the 5,099th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,745 places from #3,354 in 2024. That is 16 fewer than the 35 boys named Hawk in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,772, reached in 2017. That year also had the most boys given the name: 87. For comparison, it was #2,332 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Hawk in 40 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1982 with 5 babies. In all, 989 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 489 babies named Hawk.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 505 US boys were named Hawk; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 87. In 2025 that was about 1 in 89,899 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Hawke are summarised on this page.
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