Hayes (surname)

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Hayes (or Hays) is a surname which may be derived from:

  • "OhAodh" (pronounced O'Hea) which is Irish from Cork County and it means "of Aodh (or son/descendant of Aodh)" . Aodh was an Celtic/Irish fire deity. The most common Irish version is O'Hay, although the Irish O'hAodh or O'hAodha also has overlaps with Hughes or Hughs. In County Cork under the Munster providence, Hayes falls under the banner of the McNamara clan in the Dalcassian Sept. The Hayes clan as also been known to hail allegiance to Clan Cian, the ruling O'Carroll clan, of Southern Ireland.
  • "de la Haye" which means "of the hedge" and is of Lowland Scot-Norman origin. The de la Haye family was a Norman family which came over with the retinue of William the Bastard (aka William the Conqueror) and settled in lowland Scotland and intermarried with the indigenous Scottish population.
  • it may be an Anglo-Saxon name from the place Hayes formerly in Kent, now in the London Borough of Bromley

People named Hayes include:

See also:

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