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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (chiefly South Yorkshire) : habitational name from a place called Hawksworth; there is one in West Yorkshire, named from the Old English personal name Hafoc ‘hawk’ + Old English worð ‘enclosure’; another, in Nottinghamshire, is probably named from the Old English personal name Hoc + worð.

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