Hayes Family History
Hayes Name Meaning
Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hAodha
‘descendant of Aodh’, a personal name meaning ‘fire’ (compare
McCoy). In some cases, especially in County Wexford, the
surname is of English origin (see below), having been taken to Ireland
by the Normans.English: habitational name from any of
various places, for example in Devon and Worcestershire, so called
from the plural of Middle English hay ‘enclosure’ (see
Hay 1), or a topographic name from the same word.English:
habitational name from any of various places, for example in Dorset,
Greater London (formerly in Kent and Middlesex), and Worcestershire,
so called from Old English h?se ‘brushwood’, or a
topographic name from the same word.English: patronymic
from Hay 3.French: variant (plural) of Haye 3.Jewish (Ashkenazic): metronymic from Yiddish name
Khaye ‘life’ + the Yiddish possessive suffix -s.
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Hayes
Name Distribution of Hayes Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Hayes families
 2,170 - 4,338  724 - 2,169 |
 1 - 723  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hayes families
|
80 - 158 27 - 79 |
1 - 26 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Hayes Family Origin
Hayes Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Hayes Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Hayes Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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