Haigh
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Haigh is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: Person living by an enclosure or hedge; or from places in northern England or northern France with that meaning.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- AUAustralia
- CACanada
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Person living by an enclosure or hedge; or from places in northern England or northern France with that meaning.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
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Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Haigh is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
topographic name for someone who lived by a hedged or fenced enclosure (Old English haga), or a habitational name from a place named with this word (or its Old Haight 114 Norse cognate hagi), especially three places called Haigh, two in West Yorkshire and the other near Manchester.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliotb. 1888GBBritish poet (1888-1947)
- Peter Haighb. 1925GBBritish television presenter
- Kenneth Haighb. 1931GBBritish actor (1931-2018)
- Robert Haighb. 1945AUAustralian field hockey player
- Nancy Haighb. 1946USAmerican set designer
- Joanna Haighb. 1954GBBritish physicist and academic
- Andrew Haighb. 1973GBEnglish film director, screenwriter and producer
- Juliette Haighb. 1982NZNew Zealand rower
- Dan Haighb. 1984GBBritish musician
- Louise Haighb. 1987GBBritish politician
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 20 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.7K | #11,534 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.7K | #11,127 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.7K | #10,831 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 73 | #34,571 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 73 | #34,218 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 10 | #72,090 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 10 | #44,428 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 9 | #41,231 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 8 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 8 | #151,352 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 4 | #138,907 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 4 | #67,982 |
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 Haigh mean, and where does it come from?
- Person living by an enclosure or hedge; or from places in northern England or northern France with that meaning. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Haigh have the most bearers?
- Haigh is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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About this data
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Haigh”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.