as a Last Name
- 211,461
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Hayes
Meaning & Origins
Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hAodha ‘descendant of Aodh’, a personal name meaning ‘fire’ (compare McCoy). In some cases, especially in County Wexford, the surname is of English origin (see below), having been taken to Ireland by the Normans.
| 114th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds of thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 211,461
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Tennessee
- has the most people named Hayes per capita
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