Hayling Family History

From Old Welsh heilyn ‘cup-bearer’ used as a personal name; occasionally found with post-medieval excrescent -s. Some of the following post-medieval bearers may alternatively belong with (2) or (3>.

From Hayling Island (Hants) although the 1330 Shrops example seems to point to an alternative but unidentified place. The Hants place-name is recorded as Hailinges in the 12th century and derives from an Old English personal name *Hægel + the Old English group-name suffix -ingas.

Variant of Ayling with a prosthetic H-.