Hayes

See also: hayes

English

Etymology 1

As an English locational surname, from Old English hæs (“brushwood”) (see hris) and Middle English hay (“enclosure”), heye.

Etymology 2

As an Irish surname, from Ó hAodha (“descendant of Aodh”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /heɪz/
• Rhymes: -eɪz

Proper noun

Hayes

1. Any of a number of places, outside Britain named for persons with the surname.
2. A suburb of Hillingdon borough, Greater London.
3. A suburb of Bromley borough, Greater London.
4. An English habitational surname​.
5. An Irish surname, anglicised from Ó hAodha (“descendant of Aodh”)

Derived terms

• Hayes Center
• Hayes County

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Hayes is the 127^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 194,246 individuals. Hayes is most common among White (69.38%) and Black (24.69%) individuals.

References

• Guus Kroonen, “Reflections on the o/zero-Ablaut in the Germanic Iterative Verbs”, in The Indo-European Verb: Proceedings of the Conference of the Society for Indo-European Studies, Los Angeles, 13-15 September 2010, Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2012

Anagrams

• Hayse, Shaye, Sheay, yeahs