The hayden Surname

hayden Name Meaning and History

Irish: reduced form of O’Hayden, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hÉideáin and Ó hÉidín ‘descendant of Éideán’ or ‘descendant of Éidín’, personal names apparently from a diminutive of éideadh ‘clothes’, ‘armor’. There was also a Norman family bearing the English name (see 2 below), living in County Wexford.
English: habitational name from any of various places called Hayden or Haydon. The three examples of Haydon in Northumberland are named from Old English heg ‘hay’ + denu ‘valley’. Others, for example in Dorset, Hertfordshire, Somerset, and Wiltshire, get the name from Old English heg ‘hay’ (or perhaps hege ‘hedge’ or (ge)hæg ‘enclosure’) + dun ‘hill’.
Jewish: see Heiden.

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hayden Family Facts

Distribution of hayden Families in the US in 1920

Number of hayden families

298-594

100-297

1-99

Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Thread	Author	Replies
HAYDEN Charles Lewis 1917-1998	t42Moore	0
Hayden's	kathy brinkley	4
Hayden line from Mayflower	C. Scott	48
cherokee haydens	minnesotafirefly	0
Death of Arthur Hayden at Rochester, New York	maryachtrh	0
HAYDEN Vivian HILL and William W	t42Moore	0
Veideman/Hayden	J.Daniele	3
Austin Hayden	Helen D. STebbins	2
THOMAS HAYDEN Missouri 1880	gillmanb	0
HAYDEN, New York	cmeredith	0

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