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2/22/2020, 3:41 PM Mike C
8/24/2019, 12:31 PM LMS
7/5/2007, 8:31 PM M.Hendrix

Name Hastings
Type Surname (from location)
Other Forms FormsHasting, Harestane, Hairston
Edit Status Status3. usages AND description are verified

Meaning & History

Habitational name from Hastings, a place in Sussex, on the south coast of England, near which the English army was defeated by the Normans in 1066. It is named from Old English H?stingas ‘people of H?sta’. The surname was taken to Scotland under William the Lion in the latter part of the 12th century. It also assimilated some instances of the native Scottish surname Harestane (see Hairston). See also, Hasting.
Added 7/5/2007 by M.Hendrix