Hawthorne

#4,304 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Hawthorne has been given to 432 babies in the U.S. since 1916. In 2025 it ranked #4,304 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 36 recorded.

Babies named Hawthorne, 2025

1 in 138,000

Hawthorne over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Hawthorne?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 138,000
24 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 71,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,304
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
95,747 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hawthorne sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 95,747 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hawthorne. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hawthornes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hawthorne was born before 2017 — so the typical Hawthorne is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
44.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
83.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
374
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 44.1% of all recorded uses (188).

Is Hawthorne rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−190
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+611
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−187
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.96×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
66.7%
Peak was 2016 (36)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,061
1956

Where Hawthorne is used

Across 1910–2025, Hawthorne was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,486,540 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Hawthorne has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Hawthorne by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,304
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 611
Best rank ever
#3,061
1956
Peak year
2016
36 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
426
Count in 2025
24

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#15,015
2016
Peak year
2016
6 that year
First recorded
2016
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Hawthorne

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Sibling names for Hawthorne

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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