Haynes (surname)


Haynes is a surname.

Etymology

According to the Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, the modern names Haine, Hayne, Haines, Hains, Hanes, and Haynes originate in four different medieval names, which came to sound the same.
  1. The Middle English name Hain. This is thought to have originated as a pet form of Anglo-Norman names such as Reynald, Reyner and Rainbert.
  2. The personal name Hagan, which is itself of diverse origins.
  3. The Old English word haga, in the oblique case form hagan, whose use could have arisen from a locative epithet such as æt hagan.
The forms ending in -s show the addition of the genitive case ending, implying that the name-bearer was the child of a father called Hain, or addition of -s on the analogy of such named.
Additional etymologies for Haines and Haynes names not shared by the Hayne types are:
  1. the place-name of Haynes, Bedfordshire, indicating people from that village.
  2. the Irish name Hynes.
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland also considers the suggestion of origins in the Welsh name Einws, but does not find evidence to support this.

Distribution

As of around 2011, 15,237 individuals had the surname Haynes in Great Britain, and 110 in Ireland. In 1881, 10,446 people in Great Britain had the name, which was widespread in England, with a cluster in the Midlands. Meanwhile, Irish bearers of the name around the middle of the nineteenth century clustered in Cork.

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