The hayes Surname

hayes Name Meaning and History

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.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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hayes Family Facts

Distribution of hayes Families in the US in 1920

Number of hayes families

1275-2548

426-1274

1-425

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christopher lowry hayes	PaulVanDellen51	60
Hayes of Sumter county Florida	LeeDeas65	0
Hayes Family in Texas	AJHayes	58
Sarah Ann (JONES) Hayes and Burgess Henry Hayes (Ggrandparents)	shybaby0227	3
Joseph Elliott Hayes m. Talitha Shawhan Burns (Kentucky)	SAKoenig	3
Louis D. Hayes Hartford, CT born 1902	brihayes37	0
James A Hayes	SALLI_GIRL	0
John & Eliza Hayes/Hays Neb/Kan	chrishayesfd	0
HAYES Elmer S Jr 1917-1986	t42Moore	0
HAYES Geneva Viola and Albert Chester	t42Moore	0

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