Any body know what the name Hanes means?
All I know is that before the Hanes family came to america it was spelled Hawns or Haunes. I would like to know what it means cause it is my last name.
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The word hanes (pronounced han-es) means "history" or "story" in Welsh, but this is probably entirely coincidental.
It looks like a version of Haines/Haynes, an English locative name meaning something like fences, but the earlier spellings suggest otherwise. Could it be from some German name, like Hannes or Hahn?
no sorry.