The surname Hawker
An occupational surname, carried by 2,089 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex H260
Origin
A surname originating as an occupation.
Hawker is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,089 people named Hawker in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 147,796 Americans. That is up 1.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,050.
Who is named Hawker
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
90% of people named Hawker identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.5% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 90%
- Black (not Hispanic) 5.5%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
- Two or more races 1.6%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%
Famous Hawkers
1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first
- Harry HawkerAustralian aviation pioneer (1889–1921)
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Hawker has the Soundex code H260, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H260.
Questions
- How common is the surname Hawker?
- 2,089 people in the United States had the surname Hawker in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 147,796 Americans. It ranked 14,328th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Hawker?
- In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Hawker identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.5% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Who is the most famous person named Hawker?
- Harry Hawker, Australian aviation pioneer (1889–1921).
- Where is the surname Hawker most common?
- Wikidata records people named Hawker in Australia.
- What type of surname is Hawker?
- Hawker is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
- Is the surname Hawker getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,050 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,089 in 2010, up 1.9%.