English : patronymic from the Middle English personal nameHawkin, a diminutive of Hawk 1 with the Anglo-Norman French hypocoristic suffix -in.
English : in the case of one family (see note below), this is a variant of Hawkinge, a habitational name from a place in Kent, so called from Old EnglishHafocing ‘hawk place’.
Irish : sometimes used as an English equivalent of Gaelic Ó hEacháin (see Haughn).
