Hayden Family History
Hayden Name Meaning
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Hayden
Name Distribution of Hayden Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Hayden families
 251 - 499  84 - 250 |
 1 - 83  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hayden families
|
10 - 18 4 - 9 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Hayden Family Origin
Hayden Emigration Information (US)
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Hayden Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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