Haynes (surname)

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 (1927–2017), Canadian businessman and university administrator
• 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
• D. E. L. Haynes (1913–1994), English classical scholar, archaeologist and curator
• 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 (c. 1952), Canadian politician
• 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 (born 1944), American historian
• Johnny Haynes (1934–2005), English football player
• Jordan Haynes (born 1996), Canadian soccer 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 (born 1964), American professional wrestler better known as Prince Iaukea
• Michael E. Haynes (1927–2019), American Baptist minister and politician
• Mike Haynes (cornerback) (born 1953), American football player
• Mitzi Haynes (born 1915), American actress better known as Mitzi Gould.
• Nicole Haynes (born 1974), Canadian-American heptathlete
• O.H. Haynes, Jr. (1920–1996), Louisiana sheriff
• Phil Haynes (offensive lineman) (born 1995), American football player
• Robert Haynes (1931–1998), Canadian geneticist and biophysicist
• Roberta Haynes (born 1929), American actress
• Roy Haynes (born 1926), American jazz musician
• Stephen Haynes (1801–1879), American politician, builder and businessman
• Stephen Haynes (born 1963), English actor
• Terrence Haynes (born 1984), Barbadian freestyle swimmer
• Todd Haynes (born 1961), American film director
• Warren Haynes (born 1960), American rock and blues guitarist
• Williams Haynes (1886–1970), American journalist and historian

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

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