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Origin / History of the Haine Name

This interesting and unusual surname is said to be a variant of ‘Hain’, which itself has three possible origins.  Firstly, it may be of locational origin from any of the places named from the Olde English pre 7^th Century ‘(ge)haeg’, or Middle English ‘heghen’, both meaning  enclosure.  ‘Hayne’ is also a popular minor placename in Devon.  However, it may also derive from the Middle English personal name ‘Hain, or Heyne’, from the Germanic ‘Hagano’, meaning ‘hawthorn’, but in the Danelaw it may also derive from the Old Norse ‘Hagni’, a Scandinavian form of the same name.  Finally, the name may have originated as a German topographical name for someone who lived by a patch of enclosed pastureland, from the Middle High German ‘hagen’, meaning hedge.  The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Ulricus Hagana, which was dated 1086, in the Domesday Book of Suffolk.  Other early examples include: Peter Hain, Dorset, 1200; Adfridus Hane, Staffordshire, 1209; William le Heyne, Staffordshire, 1327; Alice Heynes, Somerset, 1327; and Margery Haynes, Essex, 1352.  One John Hayne was one of the convicted Monmouth rebels who were transported to the Barbadoes, from Dorchester Jail, in 1685.

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