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Fawkes
Pronounced FAWKS /หfษks/Medium
Meaning: Fawkes is an English surname pressed into service as a first name. It descends from the medieval personal name Fawke or Fulk, from the Germanic falco, 'falcon.' Its best-known bearer is Guy Fawkes, the seventeenth-century conspirator of the Gunpowder Plot, and its recent use as a given name reflects the broader fashion for surname-names.Low
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History & Origin
Fawkes is a surname turned given name, from the medieval Fawke or Fulk and the Germanic falco, 'falcon.' Guy Fawkes made the surname famous, and modern parents drawn to bold, single-syllable surname-names have carried it, sparingly, onto birth certificates.
It appeared as a first name in the United States only in the two-thousands and twenty-tens, given to only about fifteen boys a year even at its brief peak, part of the wider surname-as-first-name trend. It remains very rare and distinctive.
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What does the name Fawkes mean?
It is an English surname used as a given name, from the medieval Fawke or Fulk, from Germanic falco, 'falcon.'
How do you pronounce Fawkes?
It is said FAWKS /หfษks/ - one syllables, stress on the first.
Is Fawkes a boy or girl name?
Fawkes is used as a boy's name.
How popular is Fawkes?
It was always rare in the United States, given to only about fifteen boys a year even at its peak in the twenty-tens.