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What Is The Origin Of The Last Name Hayes?

As an adoptee, I would like to know where my biological mothers family is from.

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    hayes
    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.
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    Juvena27  

    answered 3 years ago

         
         

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