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hayden Name Meaning and History

  1. 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.
  2. 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’.
  3. Jewish: see Heiden.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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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
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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HAYDEN Charles Lewis 1917-1998 t42Moore 0
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