# Haynes (surname)

Haynes is a surname.

## Etymology

According to the Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, the modern names Haine, Hayne, Haines, Hains, Hanes, and Haynes all originate in four different medieval names, which came to sound the same.
* The Middle English name Hain. This is thought to have originated as a pet form of Anglo-Norman names such as Reynald, Reyner and Rainbert.
* The personal name Hagan, which is itself of diverse origins.
* The Old English word haga ('enclosure', Middle English hay), in the oblique case form hagan (Middle English hayne), whose use could have arisen from a locative epithet such as æt hagan ('at the enclosure').
The forms ending in -s show the addition of the genitive case ending, implying that the name-bearer was the child of a father called Hain, or addition of -s on the analogy of such named.
Additional etymologies for Haines and Haynes names not shared by the Hayne types are:
* the place-name of Haynes, Bedfordshire, indicating people from that village (whose name itself derived from Old English *hægen ('enclosures').
* the Irish name Hynes.
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland also considers the suggestion of origins in the Welsh name Einws (a pet form of Einion), but does not find evidence to support this.

## Distribution

As of around 2011, 15,237 individuals had the surname Haynes in Great Britain, and 110 in Ireland. In 1881, 10446 people in Great Britain had the name, which was widespread in England, with a cluster in the Midlands. Meanwhile, Irish bearers of the name around the middle of the nineteenth century clustered in Cork.
As a surname, Haynes is the 249th most common surname in Great Britain with 33,812 bearers. It is most common in the West Midlands where it is the 89th most common surname with 4,937 bearers. Other concentrations include East Sussex, (17th, 3,323), Cambridgeshire, (32nd, 3,357), Hampshire, (84th, 3,385), Tyne & Wear, (192nd, 1,821), West Yorkshire, (280th, 1,739), Cheshire, (282nd, 1,715) and Essex (461st, 1,703). Other notable concentrations include, Gwynedd, Merseyside, Bedfordshire, Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire, and Greater London.

## People

Notable people with the surname include:

### A–J

* Alex Haynes (born 1982), American football player
* Abner Haynes (1937–2024), American football player
* Adrian Haynes (1926–1988), Native American leader
* Arden Haynes (1927–2017), Canadian businessman and university administrator
* Arthur Haynes (1914–1966), English comedian
* Billy Jack Haynes (born 1953), American former professional wrestler
* Christian Haynes, American college football player
* Colton Haynes (born 1988), American actor
* Nelly (born Cornell Haynes Jr. in 1974), American rapper
* D. E. L. Haynes (1913–1994), English classical scholar, archaeologist and curator
* Danny Haynes (born 1988), English footballer
* Deborah Haynes, British journalist
* Desmond Haynes (born 1956), West Indian cricketer and cricket coach
* Dick Haynes (1911–1980), American actor
* Elizabeth Haynes (crime writer), British writer of crime fiction
* Elizabeth Ross Haynes (1883–1953), African American social worker, sociologist, and author
* Elizabeth Sterling Haynes (1897–1957), Canadian theatre activist
* Elwood Haynes (1857–1925), American inventor and co-founder of the Haynes-Apperson Company
* Euphemia Haynes (1890–1980), African American mathematician and educator
* Fred Haynes (c. 1952), Canadian politician
* Gibby Haynes (born 1957), American musician
* Grace Lynne Haynes, American artist
* Jamal Haynes (born 2002), American football player
* James Haynes (American football) (born 1960), American football player
* Jerry Haynes (1927–2011), American actor and children's television host
* Jimmy Haynes (born 1972), American baseball player
* Joe Haynes (baseball) (1917–1967), American baseball player
* Joe M. Haynes (1936–2018), American lawyer and politician
* John Haynes (governor) (1594–1654), English colonial magistrate, governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and Connecticut Colony
* John Henry Haynes (1849–1910), American archaeologist and pioneering early photographer
* John Earl Haynes (born 1944), American historian
* Johnny Haynes (1934–2005), English football player
* Jordan Haynes (born 1996), Canadian soccer player
* Justice Haynes (born 2004), American football player

### L–Z

* Lemuel Haynes (1753–1833), American preacher and abolitionist
* Marcus Haynes (born 1998), American football player
* Mark Haynes. (born 1958), American football player
* Marquis Haynes (born 1993), American football player
* Martin Alonzo Haynes (1842–1919), US Representative
* Michael Haynes (defensive lineman) (born 1980), American football player
* Michael Haynes III (born 1964), American professional wrestler better known as Prince Iaukea
* Michael E. Haynes (1927–2019), American Baptist minister and politician
* Mike Haynes (cornerback) (born 1953), American football player
* Nicole Haynes (born 1974), Canadian-American heptathlete
* Phil Haynes (American football) (born 1995), American football player
* Robert Haynes (disambiguation)
* Roberta Haynes (1927–2019), American actress
* Roy Haynes (1926–2024), American jazz musician
* Stanley Haynes (producer) (1906–1958), British film producer and screenwriter
* Stephen Haynes (1801–1879), American politician, builder and businessman
* Susan Bunton Haynes, (born 1959), Episcopal Bishop
* Sybille Haynes (born 1926), British archaeologist
* Terrence Haynes (born 1984), Barbadian freestyle swimmer
* Todd Haynes (born 1961), American film director
* Trudy Haynes (1926-2022), American journalist
* Walter Battison Haynes (1859–1900), English pianist, organist and composer.
* Warren Haynes (born 1960), American rock and blues guitarist
* Williams Haynes (1886–1970), American journalist and historian

## Fictional characters

* Mr. Haynes, character in the novel Minty Alley by C. L. R. James
* Gus Haynes, a character in the fifth season of The Wire