Hays Family Crest & Name History

Search old registers for Hays and you will soon meet Hay too. At root, the name means “hedge, enclosure”.

A variant of Hay

Hays adds a patronymic ending to Hay, marking ‘son of’ or ‘of the family of’.

The 2010 census count for Hays in the United States was 34,191, good for rank 1,021. 1,919 people born in France between 1891 and 2000 carried the Hays name at birth. The name became more frequent over the century.

Arms associated with the name

Arms linked to Hay and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

Research your Hays family history with a full surname report and painted coat of arms.