Haines

surname · Latin script

Meaning: person from Haynes, Bedfordshire; son of Hain; or from Welsh Einws

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/heɪnz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Haines is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 6.6K(inferred from the name graph)
  • AUAustralia≈1 in 6.9K
  • CACanada≈1 in 9.8K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Haines itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈170,000 people, est.

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
469 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 6.6K (inferred from the name graph)

United Kingdom, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

HainesLatin(measured from records)
ГейнсCyrillic(measured from records)
헤인스Hangul(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Haynes in KR South Korea.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

person from Haynes, Bedfordshire; son of Hain; or from Welsh Einws

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Haines counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Haines is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈170,000 est.≈1 in 8.2K—Haines7
US United States—85,974as Haynes1 in 3.9K86KHaines469
GB United Kingdom#623≈10,000 est.≈1 in 6.6K—Haines226
CA Canada#966≈3,800 est.≈1 in 9.8K1Haines157
AU Australia#672≈3,700 est.≈1 in 6.9K1Haines164
GY Guyana—966as Haynes1 in 777966—3
VC St. Vincent & Grenadines—255as Haynes1 in 398255——
KR South Korea#551≈47 est.≈1 in 1.1M—Haynes10

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Haines is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Haineș, Haineş

  • German surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, United Kingdom, Austria

    Also written Haineş

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, United Kingdom, Canada

    Also written Haïnes, Haineş

  • a separate surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy

    Also written Hâineš

40 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Haines is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, division, AK; pers. name

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In English, Old English; from the fenced area.

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • In German, genitive singular of Hain

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000Frederick Haines, b. 1819Jackson Haines, b. 1840John M. Haines, b. 1863William Haines, b. 1900Larry Haines, b. 1918Randa Haines, b. 1945Avril Haines, b. 1969Sara Haines, b. 1977Jessica Haines, b. 1978Tim Haines, b. 2000

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 37 sources across 24 countries.

Official registers attesting Haines
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201029K#1,201
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200029K#1,102
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202028K#1,251
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 202520251#624
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Haines mean, and where does it come from?
person from Haynes, Bedfordshire; son of Hain; or from Welsh Einws Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
How do you pronounce Haines?
A machine transcription gives /heɪnz/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Haines have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 169 thousand people named Haines in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled haines.
How common is the name Haines?
In the United States, the national register counted 85,974 people named Haynes in 2010, about 1 in 3.9 thousand residents.
How common is Haines compared with other names?
In South Korea, Haines is the 551st most common surname of 14,133 surnames recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Haines” — the 551st most common surname in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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