Fawkes
A boys’ name of Old English origin, meaning falcon; hawk-like.
Babies a year
7
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list
Fawkes by the numbers
Fawkes was given to 7 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 8 babies in 2016, making it a 2010s name.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Fawkes. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Faresknight or horseman14 in England and Wales (2025)
Other names that mean a bird
Like Fawkes, each of these has a bird in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Gavinwhite hawk4,134 in the US (2017)
- Jonahdove2,523 in the US (2017)
- Remingtonraven settlement; from the raven farm2,251 in the US (2017)
- Phoenixmythical bird that rises from ashes2,184 in the US (2017)
- Corbinraven; from corvus1,434 in the US (2017)
- Jaya form of names beginning with J; also the bird856 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Fawkes
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