Origin and popularity of the name HAYES

Origin

Hayes : 1: Irish (Cork): shortened 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.2: English: variant of Hay with post-medieval excrescent -s.3: English: topographic name from the plural form of Middle English hay(e) heye heghe ‘enclosure’ (see Hay) sometimes used as a collective noun for a farm especially in Devon where it is a frequent minor placename. Compare Hain.4: English: habitational name from either of two places called Hayes (Middlesex Kent) or a topographic name for someone who lived near land overgrown with brushwood or underwood especially young oak or beech. The etymon in each case is Old English hǣse hēse Middle English hese ‘brushwood’ which is also the source of the lost minor placename Heys in Hellingly (Sussex) Northease and Southease (Sussex) and Heys Wood (Kent).5: English (of Norman origin): habitational name from one of the French hamlets named La Haise (Eure Ille-et-Vilaine Sarthe). The original sense like that of Old English hǣse (see 4 above) was ‘land overgrown with brushwood or underwood’ and the Norman and English names are difficult to tell apart. The French surname was reintroduced to England after 1685 by Huguenots.6: English: variant of Ace with hypercorrect initial H-.7: French: topographic name for someone who lived by an enclosure a variant (plural) of Haye. Compare Deshayes">Deshayes.8: Jewish (Ashkenazic): metronymic from Yiddish name Khaye ‘life’ + the Yiddish possessive suffix -s.

Butwell : perhaps a rationalization of Buttle or Bowtell; compare Dianes Buttle 1598 in PROB 11 (Stanton Saint John Oxon) with the Oxon form of 1740.perhaps from Botwell in Hayes (Middx). The place-name is from Old English bōt ‘healing remedy’ + wielle or the like ‘stream spring’. A place called Botewelleslade (Leics) is mentioned in 1307 in Patent Rolls which may suggest an alternative unconfirmed origin. It is not clear that the first bearer is relevant but no other medieval instances have come to light.

Deshayes : French: topographic name for someone who lived by an enclosure from the plural of Old French haye ‘hedge’ (see Haye and Hayes) with fused preposition and definite article des ‘from the’; or a habitational name denoting someone from Les Hayes the name of several places in various parts of France. Compare Deshaies.

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