Hains
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hains is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: variant spelling of Haynes.
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
variant spelling of Haynes. SSSBSliESTwo brothers of this name were captured in New England by the French; one was married at Ange-Gardien, Quebec, in 1710.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hains counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 1K | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 35 | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | 33 | — |
| HR Croatia | — | 23 | — |
| PL Poland | — | 4 | — |
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 2020; Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Hains is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, altération du nom anglais Haynes, le nom d’une localité en Angleterre
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
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)
- Peter Conover Hainsb. 1840USUnited States Army general (1840-1921)
- Thornton Jenkins Hainsb. 1866USAmerican writer (1866–1953)
- Peter C. Hains IIIb. 1901USAmerican cavalry officer who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics in the Modern Pentathlon (1901–1998)
- Donald Hainsb. 1916CACanadian sailor (1916-2005)
- Roma Hainsb. 1917CACanadian politician
- Gaston Hainsb. 1921CACatholic bishop
- Raymond Hainsb. 1926FRFrench artist (1926–2005)
- Harry Hainsb. 1992AUAustralian actor (1992-2020)
- Nikita Hainsb. 2000AUAustralian diver
- John HainsBritish Royal Navy officer, lieutenant in 1815
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 25 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1K | #25,020 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 940 | #24,857 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 908 | #26,795 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #221,683 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #263,374 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- Where does the name Hains come from?
- variant spelling of Haynes. SSSBSliESTwo brothers of this name were captured in New England by the French; one was married at Ange-Gardien, Quebec, in 1710. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Hains mean?
- Recorded meaning: variant spelling of Haynes.
- In which country does Hains have the most bearers?
- Hains is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Hains?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hainsThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Hains”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.