Hawthorn
Hawthorn is a baby name of English origin, meaning The flowering hawthorn tree.
What Hawthorn means
The flowering hawthorn tree.
Hawthorn sits at 8 letters, and ends on a consonant, which gives it a firmer stop.
Where Hawthorn comes from
English names come from a long layering of Anglo-Saxon, Norman French, and biblical sources. Many began as surnames, place names, or occupations before they were ever used as first names.
Hawthorn is recorded as English in origin. Browse other English names.
How popular is Hawthorn?
Hawthorn does not currently chart in the top 100 baby names. Rankings move constantly, and names can spend decades out of the lists before returning — so this says more about the present moment than about the name itself.
The character of Hawthorn
Two ideas meet in Hawthorn: flowers and growing things and the natural world. Names carrying more than one theme tend to be the ones that suit a wider range of siblings.
Names like Hawthorn
These share Hawthorn's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Briar — A wild, thorny rose bush.
- Daisy — The day's-eye flower.
- Hadley — Field of heather.
- Heather — The flowering heath shrub.
- Lily — The lily flower — purity and beauty.
- Bryony — To sprout; a climbing vine.
- Marigold — The golden marigold flower.
- May — The hawthorn blossom; the fifth month.
- Meadow — A field of wildflowers.
- Petunia — The trumpet-shaped flower.
- Poppy — The bright red poppy flower.
- Primrose — First rose; first flower of spring.