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Updated August 8, 2024

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Family name origins & meanings

  • English (southwestern) : occupational name for a servant, from Middle English hine ‘lad’, ‘servant’ (originally a collective term for a body of servants, from an Old English plural noun, hīwan ‘household’).
  • Americanized spelling of German Hein.

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