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Haden Name Meaning
English (West Midlands): variant of Haddon and Haydon . Irish: variant of Hayden . Perhaps an altered form of German Hadden or Heiden .
Haddon Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places in Derbyshire Northamptonshire Huntingdonshire and Devon named with Old English hǣth ‘heathland heather’ + dūn ‘hill’ or from Haddon in Cambridgeshire which is probably named from the Old English personal name Headda + dūn. Scottish: variant of Hadden .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Hyden, Hayden, Hadden, Harden, Hanen, Haven, Hagen, Headen, Maden
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Hodson Name Meaning
English:: variant of Hudson . patronymic from the Middle English personal name Hod(e) a variant of Ode + -son. See Ott and Oates . variant of Hodgson . variant of Hodsdon . variant of Hotston perhaps a habitational name from a lost place in Harting (Sussex) from an Old English personal name Hod (genitive Hoddes) + tūn ‘farmstead estate’ (compare Hodsdon ). The placename may survive in the name Hudsons Copse in that parish in which case it could be a source of the surnames Hotson Hodson Hudson and Hutson in Sussex.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Howson, Hodgson, Hobson, Hudson, Dodson, Hopson, Hodsdon, Eidson
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Hardy Name Meaning
English French and Walloon: nickname for a brave or foolhardy man from Old French Middle English hardi ‘bold courageous’. The surname of Walloon origin is also found in the Flemish part of Belgium (mainly in Belgian Limburg). Compare Hard Irish: in addition to being an importation of the English name this is also found as an Anglicized form (by partial translation) of Gaelic Mac Giolla Deacair ‘son of the hard lad’. Americanized form of Swiss German Härdi: from a pet form of an ancient Germanic personal name composed with hard ‘brave strong’. Polish: nickname from hardy ‘haughty proud’ (compare Gardy ).
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Hard, Hardt, Harty, Harry, Hards, Handy, Hendy, Gard, Hurry, Havey
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Harmston Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Harmston in Lincolnshire which probably derives its name from the Old Norse personal name Hermóthr (genitive Hermóths) + Old English tūn ‘farmstead estate’.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Harston, Hampton, Hurston, Harton, Haston, Harmon, Harmison, Marston
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Harrington Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the three places called Harrington (Cumberland Lincolnshire Northamptonshire). The Cumberland placename derives from the Old English personal name Hæfer + Old English connective -ing- + tūn ‘farmstead estate’. The Lincolnshire placename derives from the Old English personal name Hearra + Old English connective -ing- + tūn. The Northamptonshire derives from an Old English personal name Hǣthhere + Old English connective -ing- + tūn ‘farmstead estate’. Compare Herendeen . Irish: adopted as an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hArrachtáin ‘descendant of Arrachtán’ a personal name from a diminutive of arrachtach ‘mighty powerful’. Irish: in Kerry this name was adopted as an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hIongardail later Ó hUrdáil ‘descendant of Iongardal’ a personal name of uncertain origin. Irish: sometimes a variant of Harrity .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Barrington, Warrington, Carrington, Darrington, Farrington
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Haxby Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire): habitational name from Haxby (North Yorkshire) from the Old Norse personal name Hákr (genitive Háks) + Old Norse bȳ ‘farmstead village’.
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Saxby, Hamby, Hubby, Harty, Maxey, Hay, Carby, Hambly, Nasby, Canby
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Haygarth Name Meaning
From Haygarth in Docker (Westm). The place-name may derive from Old English hēg ‘hay’ + Old Scandinavian garðr ‘enclosure’.
Source:
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
Similar surnames:
Haggart, Hayworth, Hogarth, Hoggarth, Haggarty, Hagarty, Howarth
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Healey Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Healey (Lancashire North Yorkshire Yorkshire Northumberland) Heeley (Yorkshire) or Healaugh (North Yorkshire Yorkshire). The main origin in Yorkshire was Healey (in Shelley) but the Yorkshire name has also probably been confused with Haley . The placenames derive from Old English hēah ‘high’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. Irish: variant of Healy .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Henley, Headley, Heatley, Haley, Hedley, Heasley, Hesley, Hanley
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Henderson Name Meaning
English and Scottish: usually from Middle English and Older Scots Hener(i)son ‘Henry's son’ occasionally from Middle English Hendeson ‘son of Hen’ a pet form of Henry both with an intrusive -d-. Compare Hendrie . In Scotland Henderson was sometimes substituted for McKendrick .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Enderson, Anderson, Sanderson, Fenderson, Ingerson, Mendelson
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts

Herring Name Meaning
English (London) Dutch and German: metonymic occupational name for a herring fisher or for a seller of the fish or perhaps for someone who habitually ate herring from Middle English hering (Old English hǣring hēring) Dutch haring Middle High German hærinc. In some cases it may have been a nickname in the sense of a trifle something of little value a meaning which is found in medieval phrases and proverbial expressions such as ‘to like neither herring nor barrel’ i.e. not to like something at all. German: habitational name from Herringen in Westphalia. German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Hering .
Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
Similar surnames:
Hering, Herling, Harring, Herrin, Herrick, Helling, Heuring, Herrig
From: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts