hauksdottir: Yes yours - I was talking of mine. Yours I know as it is similar to Erikson (son of Erik). A fine Nordic name. Mine I found many years ago, and have not been able to reference it in the internet as of yet, and cannot remember the source(I'm really bad with that,) but appears to be of Irish derivation and from what I've read means "keeper of the hawk". I don't know if it means that my ancestors were falconers or if it is even more cryptic or even if it could be French or even Greek.(I doubt it though - when I was growing up I looked like a cross between John Wayne and Ronald Reagan. Pretty sure I'm at least part Irish on my dad's side). Any rate geneology is just something really neat to know - so many of us have lost our family history. - Sorry for the confusion.