Hayes

 

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• (surname): Heyes

• 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 (“descendant of Aodh”).

• IPA^(key): /heɪz/
• Rhymes: -eɪz

Hayes (countable and uncountable, plural Hayeses)

1. A surname
   1. An English habitational surname from Old English.
   2. A surname from Irish, anglicised from Ó hAodha (“descendant of Aodh”)
2. A placename
   1. Any of a number of places; those outside Britain named for persons with the surname.
   2. A place in England:
      1. A town in the borough of Hillingdon, Greater London (OS grid ref TQ1080).
      2. A suburb in the borough of Bromley, Greater London (OS grid ref TQ4066).
   3. A commune in Moselle department, Grand Est, France.
   4. A settlement in Jamaica.
   5. A rural locality in Derwent Valley council area, Tasmania, Australia.
   6. A number of places in the United States:
      1. A former settlement in Fresno County, California.
      2. A census-designated place in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana.
      3. An unincorporated community in Stanley County, South Dakota.
      4. An unincorporated community in the town of How, Oconto County, Wisconsin.
      5. A number of townships in the United States, listed under Hayes Township.

• 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.

• 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

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