Hayne

Hayne is a surname of English origin.

Etymology

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According to the Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, modern names Haine, Hayne, Haines, Hains, Hanes, and Haynes all 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'.

Distribution

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Around 2011, there were 533 bearers of the surname Hayne in Great Britain and none in Ireland. In 1881, there were 774 bearers of the name in Great Britain, concentrated in the south-west of England, particularly in Dorset.[2]

People

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See also

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References

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  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, p. 1233 [s.v. Hayne, and the other entries referred to there]; ISBN 978-0-19-967776-4.
  2. ^ 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. Hayne]; ISBN 978-0-19-967776-4.