Meaning

“What’s in a name?”

First, as to meaning:

Meaning of Haynes

English (Shropshire): from the Welsh personal name Einws, a diminutive of Einion (of uncertain origin, popularly associated with einion ‘anvil’).

English: patronymic from the medieval personal name Hain

English: habitational name from Haynes in Bedfordshire. This name first appears in Domesday Book as Hagenes, which Mills derives from the plural of Old English hægen, hagen ‘enclosure’. Irish: variant of Hines.

The most common root is also the most prosaic: an enclosure of some sort, whether hedgerows, livestock pens or some other structure intended to separate, protect or delineate rural areas or farms. If indeed an Old English word similar to “hayne” described an enclosure such as a hedgerow that surrounded a farm or livestock, the claimed origin may have merit. Although searching for these obsolete words and trying to tease out their modern meanings is difficult, there are some hints in other old English words. “Hæg-” is indeed an old English root that appears in words like “hægweard” (a keeper of cattle in a common field — perhaps like “hedge-warden”), “hægsugga” (hedge-sparrow) and “hæghál” (safe and sound). The “æ” dipthong would produce a sound that would rhyme with the modern English “hay”, so it’s not far-fetched to think that a surname could evolve from “hay-” that meant “enclosure”. In this way, the variants on Hayne resemble the surname “Bailey”, which also derives from a structure that provides enclosing protection (albeit in the Norman tongue).

The word hayne and the participle hayned are found in several provincial dialects, for instance those of Gloucester, Somerset, Norfolk, and the North of England. The words appear to mean land reserved, or enclosed, for some particular purpose, and are doubt- less connected with hay, plural hayne, meaning hedge. Allied words are haw (Yorkshire haigli), French haie, German hain. If liayne in the sense of " hedge " be the origin of the name, we should have expected to find such forms as William atte hayne, but amongst thousands of references no such instance has been found, though de Hayn occurs once, and Hen (perhaps Heyn) once at Shoreham.

It is just possible that, as Heane in Anglo-Saxon was pronounced Hayne, the name is purely Saxon, the original meaning having been long forgotten. If so, it can boast a very respectable antiquity, as a certain prince named Cissa, lord of Wiltshire and Berkshire, had a nephew named Heane, a rich and influential man who founded the monastery of Abingdon in 675. 4 One family at least uses this actual spelling, Heane (pronounced Hayne), viz., that of Dr. Heane, of Cinderford, Gloucestershire.

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However, we also have the following which provided more detail. They include a reference copied from the ” Stemmata Botevilliana,” which suggests a source to the of the genealogy of the haynes, Haines, etc. This pedigree runs back in Montgomeryshire through Einion to Gwyn, Lord of Guilsfield, son of Griffith, son of Beli, descendant from Brockwel Yschithrog, who reigned over Powysland (Wales), a.d. 607. Einion, Prince of Powys, was distinguished in the wars against Henry I of England, a.d. 1100-1135. He had a son whom he named after himself, but by distinction, and according to the Welsh custom of the times, he was familiarly called Einws, which was pronounced Eins. Now this son of Einion had a son John who was called John Einws — afterwards written John Eines of Bausley, in the parish of Alderbury, which parish was both in Shropshire and Montgomeryshire. Shrewsbury Avas the market town for this Alderbury parish. Among the ancient records of that town the name frequently occurs, and in the fifteenth and early part of the sixteenth centuries it was variously written as Eines, Eynes, Heynes, Heanes, Haines, Haynes. The pronunciation probably was the same. While but few people were able to write their name in those days, and as names appealed more to the ear than to the eye, it was very easy to give the aspirate ‘”H”, so that when written it would be Heins or Heines ; and as the vowel sounds were not as sharply distinguished in those times as at present, it was easy to write the ” a ” in place of the ” e,” and the ” y ” in place of the “i.” Thus we have the same name written by different branches of the family as Heanes, Heynes, Haynes, and Haines. It is evident that Haines is more in accord with the original name, but the difference is quite immaterial, for in all cases it is pronounced the same. Very likely, as is claimed by some English genealogists, the name for other Haines (Haynes) families may have started from one or two different sources ; but the Shropshire family starts with the Prince of Powys (Wales).

Secondly, a supposed derivation is from Hainault. As Edward III married Philippa of Hainault, it is possible that some Hainaulters may have come into England in the fourteenth century, but there is no proof that they founded any families of the name of Hayne or Haynes. The ancient and honourable family of de Hayno, who held lands in Southampton and the Isle of Wight from the thirteenth century to the sixteenth century, may have taken their name from Hainault⁴.

Thirdly by a corruption of Hayne-son;

Again alternatively as the name was found in England before the Conquest of 1066, but was popularized by the Normans. In the Danelaw (the northern, central and eastern parts of Anglo-Saxon England in which Danish law and custom were observed), Haine may be derived from the Old Norse “Haghni, Hagne”, candinavized versions of the above name.

Meaning of Haines

English: patronymic from the medieval personal name Hain, descending from the Old German Hagano, meaning hawthorn. It can also come from the Old Norse Haghni/Hagne, from the same source. Lastly, it can be a locational surname from Haynes, Bedfordshire, named either from Old English haga-naess, land with a hawthorn tree, or haegen, meaning enclosure.

The name ‘Haines’ originates from England. It is a patronymic from the mediaeval given name ‘Hain’, ‘Heyne’. It is also a habitation name from Haynes in the county of Bedfordshire in England. This name first appears in Domesday Book as Hargenes and has been explained in several different ways, none of them very convincing. In Welsh it is from the personal name ‘einus’, a diminutive of ‘einion’.

Haines may also be of locational origin from a place in Bedfordshire called Haynes. Recorded as “Hagenes” in the Domesday Book, and as “Hagnes”, circa 1150 in the Pipe Rolls of that county, the place is so called either from the Olde English pre 7th Century “haga-naess”, headland on which stood a hawthorn tree, or from the Olde English “haegen”, the enclosure. One William atte Heyene was noted in the 1327 Subsidy Rolls of Somerset, and a Margery Haynes in the Essex County Rolls, dated 1352.

Meaning of Hain

English: habitational name from any of various places named with Middle English heghen, a weak plural of hegh, from Old English (ge)hæg ‘enclosure’. See also Haynes.
English: from the Middle English personal name Hain, Heyne. This is derived from the Germanic personal name Hagano, originally a byname meaning ‘hawthorn’. It is found in England before the Conquest, but was popularized by the Normans. In the Danelaw, it may be derived from Old Norse Hagni, Hogni (see Hagan), a Scandinavianized version of the same name.
English: nickname for a wretched individual, from Middle English hain(e), heyne ‘wretch’, ‘niggard’.
German: topographic name for someone who lived by a patch of enclosed pastureland, Middle High German hage(n) (see Hagen 1), hain, or a habitational name from a place named Hain, from this word.
German: from the Germanic personal name Hagin, originally a byname from the same element as in 2 above.
Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): metronymic from the Yiddish personal name Khaye ‘life’ + the Slavic possessive suffix -in.

Meaning of Hines

Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hEidhin ‘descendant of Eidhin’, a personal name or byname of uncertain origin. It may be a derivative of eidhean ‘ivy’, or it may represent an altered form of the place name Aidhne. The principal family of this name is descended from Guaire of Aidhne, King of Connacht. From the 7th century for over a thousand years they were chiefs of a territory in County Galway.
English: patronymic from Hine.
Americanized spelling of German Heins or Heinz.

Meaning of Heins

North German, Dutch, Frisian, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): patronymic from Hein.

Meaning of Heinz

German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from a pet form of the personal name Heinrich.

Meaning of Hine

English (southwestern): occupational name for a servant, from Middle English hine ‘lad’, ‘servant’ (originally a collective term for a body of servants, from an Old English plural noun, hiwan ‘household’). Later in the Middle English period, the word acquired an excrescent -d (see Hind).
Americanized spelling of German Hein.

Mr. J. H. Mathews, of Cardiff, suggests⁷ that in the West of England, Hayne may safely be derived from Welsh, or Cornish, hen, i.e., old, or the elder (Irish sean, Lat. senex) ; while Kelly’s Directory for Sussex (1898) says Henfield is derived from hean, Anglo-Saxon for ” poor.”

Many of the Haines families of the present day have doubtless descended from ancestors named Haine. The word hayne is found as a place name in compounds, such as Woodhayne, Willhayne, especially in the West of England, while Hayne and Higher Hayne are found in Devonshire and Kent during the sixteenth century. There was a castle of Hayn⁸ in France, 1516, and land in Pembrokeshire in 1530 called Le Hayn. Haynes Lees appears in Warwick as early as 1575⁹ Haynes Green was in Essex, Haynes Park in Bedfordshire, Haynes Hall (now Haines Hill) in the parish of Hurst, Berks, Haines Hill near Taunton, Haynestown in Leinster. Bedfordshire can also boast a parish called Haynes, and Kent a hundred of Hayne¹⁰

The word Hayne and the participle hayned are found in several provincial dialects, for instance those of Gloucester, Somerset, Norfolk, and the North of England. The words appear to mean land reserved, or enclosed, for some particular purpose, and are doubtless connected with hay, plural hayne, meaning hedge. Allied words are haw (Yorkshire haigh), French haie, German hain. If hayne in the sense of “hedge ” be the origin of the name, we should have expected to find such forms as William atte hayne, but amongst thousands of references no such instance has been found, though de Hayn¹¹ occurs once, and Hen¹² (perhaps Heyn) once at Shoreham.

It is just possible that, as Heane in Anglo-Saxon was pronounced Hayne, the name is purely Saxon, the original meaning having been long forgotten. If so, it can boast a very respectable antiquity, as a certain prince named Cissa, lord of Wiltshire and Berkshire, had a nephew¹³ named Heane, a rich and influential man who founded the monastery of Abingdon in 675¹⁴ One family at least uses this actual spelling, Heane (pronounced Hayne), viz., that of Dr. Heane, of Cinderford, Gloucestershire.

Besides the possible forms

The name occurs spelt in various ways as de Aine¹⁵, Ayn¹⁶, Hean, Henn, Hene, Hyne, the name occurs spelt in various ways as Heyne, Heynes, Heyns, Heygne¹⁷, Heynis, Heyneys¹⁸, Eyn¹⁹, Eynes, Eyns, Eynns, Eynnes, Heane, Hein²⁰, Hane, Hayens, Hayne, Haynes, Haine, Hain²¹, Hains, Haines.

1 Witnessing that year's transcripts of Sullington parish registers as churchwarden.

2 Witnessing his mother’s will.

3 Based apparently on the change of Ainulph’s town into Haynestown, and then into St. Neots.

4 They became extinct with the marriage of Mary de Hayno to William Pound, of Drayton. See Herbert Haines : Manual of Brasses, Part II, p. 174.

5 Gregory H. may have added the s because he believed himself descended from some family whose representatives used that spelling; .or (most likely) because lie wished to distinguish himself from another branch of his own family.

6 See Botfield’s Stemmata.

7 Notes and Queries, 8 Ser. xi. January 9, 1897.

8 Cal. Letters and Papers, Hen. YIII Eolls Series, 1530.

9 Cal. State Papers, Dom. Ser. 3 August 1575.

10 Old maps of Africa gave a Haines river in Somaliland, but this name has been dropped in favour of the native name, Juba. It is said to have been named after Captain Stafford Haines, of the Indian Navy, who died at Bombay in November, 1855. His crest was a demi-stag in front of a rising sun, with motto “Deo non sorte.”

11 Rot. Claus. Tower of London, 1203.

12 Lay Subsidies, Sussex, 6 Ed. III.

13 Nepos.

14 See Dugdale’s Monaslicon.

15 Close Bolls, 1224, Eustace de Aine.

16 Patent Rolls, Ed. II 22 April, 1333, William Ayn, of Kent.

17 Brit. Mus. Charters, 52 A. 5, 1413. Also Cal. Anc. Deeds, I, c. 238.

18 Registers of Arundel, Sussex.

19 Cal. Anc. Deeds, I, A. 835, Robert Eyn, of Bromfield, Essex.

20 An Essex family. Arms, Brit. Mus. Add. MSS. 5524.

21 A present Essex family.