Hawley

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Holly in US United States, KR South Korea, GB United Kingdom and 22 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Hawley is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Polish surname926 records spelled Hawley27 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Poland, Czechia, United Kingdom

  Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

  Also written Howley, Холи, Goli, Khouli, Голі

49 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Hawley is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, from Hawley (Hampshire or Kent), or a lost Hawley in Sheffield, Yorkshire; first attested John de Hauleye 1275 SRWo

  as a name·A Dictionary of English Surnames

• In English, Cogns. (of 1): Ger.: Habich(t), Habich, Hebich, Habig. Low Ger.: Habeck, Hawicke, Havecke, Hafke. Dan., Norw.: H0(e)g(h). Swed.: Ho(o)k. Dims, (of 1): Eng.: Hawkett, Hawkitt; Hawkin. Patr. (from 1): Eng.: Hawkes (or a var. of 2).

  as a name·A dictionary of surnames

• In English, A placename:

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 32 years between 1907–2018. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Joseph Roswell Hawleyb. 1826USUnion Army general, politician (1826–1905)
• James H. Hawleyb. 1847USAmerican politician (1847-1929)
• Wanda Hawleyb. 1895USAmerican actress (1895-1963)
• Elizabeth Hawleyb. 1923USjournalist and chronicler of Himalayan expeditions (1923–2018)
• Steven Hawleyb. 1951USAmerican astronaut
• Tommy Tubervilleb. 1954USnot in their usual nameAmerican football coach and politician (born 1954)
• John F. Hawleyb. 1958USAmerican astrophysicist
• Noah Hawleyb. 1967USAmerican television writer and producer (born 1967)
• Richard Hawleyb. 1967GBEnglish guitarist, singer-songwriter and producer
• Josh Hawleyb. 1979USAmerican lawyer and politician (born 1979)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 65 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Hawley?

We estimate roughly 184 thousand people bear Hawley (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.

In which country does Hawley have the most bearers?

We estimate about 182 thousand people bear Hawley in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled holly.

How common is Hawley compared with other names?

In the United States, Hawley is the 298th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.

What does the name Hawley mean?

Recorded meaning: Person from one of several English places called Hawley, variously meaning ‘holy glade’, ‘clearing with a large house’, or ‘clearing with a mound’.