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Hayes (surname)

Hayes (surname)

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Hayes is an English language surname. In the United States Census, 1990, Hayes was the 100th most common surname recorded.[2] The oldest record of the surname dates to 1197 in the Eynsham Cartulary of Oxfordshire, where it appears in the form Heise.[3][4][5] There are nineteen coats of arms assumed by or granted to individuals with this or a similar surname.[3] Though primarily a surname, "Hayes" sometimes appears as a given name in census records.[6]

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Origin

Derived from name of Irish god

In Ireland, Hayes originated as a Gaelic polygenetic surname "O hAodha", meaning descendant of Aodh ("fire"), or of Aed, an Irish mythological god. Septs in most counties anglicised "O hAodha" to "Hayes". In County Cork, it became "O'Hea". In the province of Ulster, it became "Hughes", the patronymic of Hugh, an anglicized variant of the given name Aodh. Hayes is noted on a public record in County Wexford as early as 1182. In County Cork, under the Munster providence, Hayes falls under the banner of the McNamara clan in the Dalcassian Sept. Other Irish Hayeses have also been associated with Clan Cian, the ruling O'Carroll clan of southern Ireland.[7][8][9]

Derived from place-name element

Main article: -Hay (place name element)

England

In England, Hayes arose as a locational surname, associated with one of the several places named or suffixed -Hay, -Hays, -Hayes, etc., such as those in Kent, or Middlesex. Such place names had two origins, one based on the Old English haes (brushwood, underwood) and the other based on horg (enclosure) or hege (hedge).[3] The distribution of Hayes in Great Britain in 1881 and 1998 is similar, and restricted to areas of England well separated from Scotland and showing some penetration into Wales.[6] This surname has gained in popularity in the century between 1881 and 1998, but remains at a rank below 150 and a frequency lower than that in the United States and some other countries of the Commonwealth.[6]

Scotland

In Scotland, Hayes is a Scoto-Norman surname, a direct translation of the Normans' locational surname "de la Haye", meaning "of La Haye", La Haye ("the hedge") being the name of several towns on the Cotentin peninsula of Normandy, France. The first Norman namebearer to arrive in Scotland was William II de la Haye in the time of the Norman invasion. Clan Hay descends from him.[7]

Other

Hayes also can derive from the Yiddish name Khaye, meaning "life".[10][11]

Given name

Main article: Hayes (given name)

Notable people with the surname

Listed here are people who share the 'Hayes' surname, organized by birth year, to assist in assembling a view of the geographic distribution of this surname over time.

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Additional notable people

Fictional characters with the surname

Distribution

As a surname, Hayes is the 191st most common surname in Great Britain, with 42,475 bearers. It is most common in Kent, where it is the 73rd most common surname, with 4,828 bearers. Other concentrations include, Buckinghamshire, (34th,3,304), Caerphilly, (43rd,1,700), Carmarthenshire, (48th,1,696), Merseyside, (79th,3,252), Swansea, (86th,1,704), City of Leeds (165th,1,722), Lancashire, (177th,3,370), Greater London, (288th,3,358), Greater Manchester, (335th,1,724), Cheshire, (386th,1,678), Essex, (618th,1,666), and Scotland. Other notable concentrations include, Tyne and Wear, West Yorkshire including, the City of Wakefield, Nottinghamshire, the Glasgow City council area, Midlothian, Moray, Aberdeenshire, Banffshire, North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire including, the City of Sheffield, Darton, Kirkleatham, and the Highlands.

See also

Citations

  1. [1]
    "Home". celticfamilymaps.com.
  2. [2]
    Citation: United States Census Bureau. 1995.
  3. [3]
    Citation: Hayes surname meaning
  4. [4]
    Eynsham Cartulary of Oxfordshire: This text is a chronological record of deeds issued in Eynsham, Oxfordshire and recorded by the Benedictine Abbey of Eynsham. Several full text versions are available online, as this is considered an antiquarian text of some relevance; for instance, a version published in 1907 is available via Google Books.
  5. [5]
    Citation: Eysham abbey. 1907.
  6. [6]
    Citation: Longley et al.
  7. [7]
    Citation: Hayes surname group.
  8. [8]
    Citation: kthomas, 2002.
  9. [9]
    Citation: Hayes, John; 2008.
  10. [10]
    "Meaning, origin and history of the surname Hayes (3)". Retrieved 26 December 2013.
  11. [11]
    "Hayes Family History". ancestry.com. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
  12. [12]
    Husband and wife: Rutherford 1822 and Lucy 1831
  13. [13]
    This person is listed here under her married name.
  14. [14]
    The Pima are a Native American people.
  15. [15]
    Father and son: Colin 1924 and David 1962
  16. [16]
    Father and son: Mickie 1938 and Calvin 1960
  17. [17]
    "CNET Vision series, December 6, 2002: "...which earned him the sobriquet of father of Wi-Fi."".
  18. [18]
    Business Week, 1 April 2003
  19. [19]
    Father and son: Isaac 1942 and Isaac before 2000
  20. [20]
    Brothers: Stevie 1963 and Bernie before 1963
  21. [21]
    Orr, Christopher (17 November 2017). "'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri' Is an Absolute Marvel". The Atlantic.

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