Hayes

Meaning

Proper Noun

  • Any of a number of places, outside Britain named for persons with the surname.
  • suburb Hillingdon (London borough) Greater London (county).
  • suburb Bromley (London borough) Greater London (county).
  • , anglicised from Ó hAodha

Origin

  • As an English locational surname, from Old English hæs ("brushwood") (see hris) and Middle English hay ("enclosure"), heye.
  • As an Irish surname, from Ó hAodha.

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