Haynes (surname)

Haynes
Origin
Region of originEngland (Bedfordshire, Merseyside, and Cheshire), Wales, Scotland (Highlands, Aberdeenshire, and Banffshire)
Other names
Variant form(s)Haine, Hayne, Haines, Hains, Hanes, and Haynes

Haynes is a surname.

Etymology

According to the Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, the modern names Haine, Hayne, Haines, Hains, Hanes, and Haynes all originate in four different medieval names, which came to sound the same.[1]

  1. The Middle English name Hain. This is thought to have originated as a pet form of Anglo-Norman names such as Reynald, Reyner and Rainbert.
  2. The personal name Hagan, which is itself of diverse origins.
  3. The Old English word haga ('enclosure', Middle English hay), in the oblique case form hagan (Middle English hayne), whose use could have arisen from a locative epithet such as æt hagan ('at the enclosure').
  4. Perhaps the Middle English word heyne (and its variants, such as haine, hayn), meaning 'mean wretch, niggard'.

The forms ending in -s show the addition of the genitive case ending, implying that the name-bearer was the child of a father called Hain, or addition of -s on the analogy of such named.

Additional etymologies for Haines and Haynes names not shared by the Hayne types are:

  1. the place-name of Haynes, Bedfordshire, indicating people from that village (whose name itself derived from Old English *hægen ('enclosures').[2]
  2. the Irish name Hynes.

The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland also considers the suggestion of origins in the Welsh name Einws (a pet form of Einion), but does not find evidence to support this.

Distribution

As of around 2011, 15,237 individuals had the surname Haynes in Great Britain, and 110 in Ireland. In 1881, 10446 people in Great Britain had the name, which was widespread in England, with a cluster in the Midlands. Meanwhile, Irish bearers of the name around the middle of the nineteenth century clustered in Cork.[3]

People

Notable people with the surname include:

Distribution

As a surname, Haynes is the 249th most common surname in Great Britain with 33,812 bearers. It is most common in the West Midlands where it is the 89th most common surname with 4,937 bearers. Other concentrations include East Sussex, (17th, 3,323), Cambridgeshire, (32nd,3,357), Hampshire, (84th,3,385), Tyne & Wear, (192nd,1,821), West Yorkshire, (280th,1,739), Cheshire, (282nd,1,715) and Essex (461st,1,703). Other notable concentrations include, Gwynedd, Merseyside, Bedfordshire, Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire, and Greater London.

Fictional characters:

  • Mr. Haynes, character in the novel Minty Alley by C. L. R. James
  • Gus Haynes, a character in the fifth season of The Wire
  1. The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, ed. by Patrick Hanks, Richard Coates, and Peter McClure, 4 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), II, pp. 1233-34 [s.vv. Hayne, Haynes, and the other entries referred to there]; ISBN 978-0-19-967776-4.
  2. Mills, A. D., A Dictionary of English Place Names (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991), s.v. Haynes.
  3. The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, ed. by Patrick Hanks, Richard Coates, and Peter McClure, 4 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), II, p. 1233 [s.v. Haynes]; ISBN 978-0-19-967776-4.
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