Haynes (surname)

Haynes

Origin
Meaning	son of "Haine"
Region of origin	England (Bedfordshire, Merseyside, and Cheshire), Wales, Scotland (Highlands, Aberdeenshire, and Banffshire)
Other names
Variant form(s)	Haines, Hayne, Haine, Hayes, Hay, Hughes

Haynes is a Welsh surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Alex Haynes (born 1982), American football player
• Abner Haynes (born 1937), American football player
• Adrian Haynes (1926-1988), Native American leader
• Arden Haynes (born 1927), Canadian former CEO of Imperial Oil and former Chancellor of York University
• Arthur Haynes (1914-1966), English comedian
• Billy Jack Haynes (born 1953), American former professional wrestler
• Colton Haynes (born 1988), American actor
• Cornell Haynes Jr. (born 1974), American rapper, better known as Nelly
• Danny Haynes (born 1988), English footballer
• Deborah Haynes, British journalist
• Desmond Haynes (born 1956), West Indian cricketer and cricket coach
• Elwood Haynes (1857–1925), American inventor and co-founder of the Haynes-Apperson Company
• Elizabeth Ross Haynes (1883–1953), African American social worker, sociologist, and author
• Gibby Haynes (born 1957), American musician
• Fred Haynes (1946–2006), American athlete
• 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 player), (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, American historian
• Johnny Haynes (1934–2005), English football player
• Lemuel Haynes (1753–1833), American preacher and abolitionist
• 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, American professional wrestler better known as Prince Iaukea
• Mike Haynes (cornerback) (born 1953), American football player
• Nicole Haynes (born 1974), Canadian-American heptathlete
• O.H. Haynes, Jr. (1920–1996), Louisiana sheriff
• O. H. Haynes, Sr. (1888–1969), Louisiana sheriff
• Robert Haynes (1931–1998), Canadian geneticist and biophysicist
• Roy Haynes (born 1926), American jazz musician
• Stephen Haynes (1801–1879), American politician and builder, Brooklyn, New York
• Terrence Haynes (born 1984), Barbadian freestyle swimmer
• Todd Haynes (born 1961), American film director
• Warren Haynes (born 1960), American rock and blues guitarist

Distribution

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.

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