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Haynes Definition:
1. English: patr. from the medieval given name Hain.
2. English: habitation name from Haynes in Beds. This name first appears in Domesday Book as Hagenes and has been explained in several different ways, none of them very convincing.
3. Welsh: from the personal name Einws, a dim. of Einion (of uncertain origin, popularly associated with the vocab. word einion anvil).
4. Hain is an English place name derived from Middle English heghen, from Old English gehoeg = enclosure. Hain and Hayne are found in several locations across England as common minor placenames.
5. Occasionally, Hain is derived from Hain as a Middle English given name, derived from Germanic hagano, which in its original form meant "hawthorne."
6. Sometimes, Hain is a nickname for someone wretched, from Middle English haine = wretch.
7. When Hain is of German origin, it is derived from Middle High German hagen = hawthorne, hedge...or from the Germanic given name as described above.
Patronymic variations are Haine, Hayne, Hayn, Hagen, Haynes, and Hanes.