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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Cumbria and Lancashire) : habitational name from Hay Hurst in the parish of Ribchester, Lancashire, so called from Old English hæg ‘enclosure’ (see Hay 1) or hēg ‘hay’ + hyrst ‘wooded hill’.

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