The haynes Surname
haynes Name Meaning and History
- English (Shropshire): from the Welsh personal name Einws, a diminutive of Einion (of uncertain origin, popularly associated with einion ‘anvil’).
- English: patronymic from the medieval personal name Hain 2.
- English: habitational name from Haynes in Bedfordshire. This name first appears in Domesday Book as Hagenes, which Mills derives from the plural of Old English hægen, hagen ‘enclosure’.
- Irish: variant of Hines.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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