Is Hayden an Irish surname?
My mums maiden name and she was Irish I meant to say is Irish
My mums maiden name and she was Irish I meant to say is Irish
Posted by 63117 on 12/19/2013 3:03:31 PM
Sometimes. Hayden Name Meaning 1) Irish: reduced form of O�Hayden, an Anglicized form of Gaelic � h�ide�in and � h�id�n �descendant of �ide�n� or �descendant of �id�n�, personal names apparently from a diminutive of �ideadh �clothes�, �armor�. There was also a Norman family bearing the English name (see 2 below), living in County Wexford. 2) English: habitational name from any of various places called Hayden or Haydon. The three examples of Haydon in Northumberland are named from Old English heg �hay� + denu �valley�. Others, for example in Dorset, Hertfordshire, Somerset, and Wiltshire, get the name from Old English heg �hay� (or perhaps hege �hedge� or (ge)h�g �enclosure�) + dun �hill�. 3) Jewish: see Heiden. Source: Dictionary of American Family Names �2013, Oxford University Press via http://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=Hayden (Free, but they will tempt you with ads.) ---------- Added later: Surname origins, as other have pointed out, are no substitute for research. Most African-Americans in the USA have English surnames; they are the biggest example, by population, of a discrepancy between surname origin and people's origin. If your mum's family had been in Ireland since 1066, and her maiden name was Kablonski, then by one definition, 'Kablonski' would be an Irish name.
Your mom is Irish, IF SHE WAS born in Ireland. She is not Irish because of her last name. The name Hayden is not limited to Ireland... Last names are not indication of either nationality or ancestry. ps Ted used an excellent and credible source. Someone giving him thumbs down, does not have a clue what they are doing.
A surname is is no indicator of where your ancestry is from, at best it tells you the language spoken, written, which influenced or was heard when your first ancestor too their surname........ and no Hayden is not from the Irish language, it is fro the English language which was and is spoken in Ireland, although I have never heard this surname in Ireland, although it is a very common surname in the UK, doesn't mean your ancestry is not from Ireland but a surname would never tell you that you would have to do the research and prove that....... It 'could be' a locational name as there are many places named Heydon and Haydon in the UK and ALL derive from the Olde English pre 7th Century language which was a celtic west Germanic language 'Heg', hay 'hege', hedge, or '(ge)haeg', meaning enclosure with 'dun', down, hill, mountain; hence 'hay down' if it was from Gaelic( Irish) it would be 'O Eideain' and there are plenty of those in Ireland which is from the personal name 'eideadh', meaning clothes, armour..............
Yes, it is