"Hines" Whats the orign? Meaning?

Question

I have tryed to find out were "Hines" comes from and what (if anything) that it means? Maybe the great people of Answers can help out? Thanks

Answer 1

This is what www.ancestry.com has to say about the name,
Hines
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hEidhin ‘descendant of Eidhin’, a personal name or byname of uncertain origin. It may be a derivative of eidhean ‘ivy’, or it may represent an altered form of the place name Aidhne. The principal family of this name is descended from Guaire of Aidhne, King of Connacht. From the 7th century for over a thousand years they were chiefs of a territory in County Galway.
English: patronymic from Hine.
Americanized spelling of German Heins or Heinz.
hope this helps.

Answer 2

www.ancestry.com/facts/Hines-name-meaning.ashx


Hines
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic ÓO hEidhin ‘descendant of Eidhin’, a personal name or byname of uncertain origin. It may be a derivative of eidhean ‘"ivy"’, or it may represent an altered form of the place name Aidhne. The principal family of this name is descended from Guaire of Aidhne, King of Connacht. From the 7th century for over a thousand years they were chiefs of a territory in County Galway.
English: patronymic from Hine.
Americanized spelling of German Heins or Heinz

Answer 3

See the link below

http://www.ancestry.com/facts/hines-name-meaning.ashx

I don't know if those are all the meanings and origins or not. The same surname can frequently come from more than one national origin and not everyone with the same surname are necessarily related or shares ancestors. See the link below from the most prestigious genealogical organization in the U. S., The National Genealogical Society

http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/comconsumerpsst.cfm

Rootsweb(free site) has over 80,000 entries in family trees for Hines. Just pull up the site and put Hines or a complete name in the Rootsweb(World Connect) block. Once you see the trees, if you see something that interest you, probe on a name and it will give you the name and email address of the submitter.

Just don't take as absolute fact everything you see in family trees on any website, free or paid. The information is user submitted and mostly not documented or poorly documented. Even when you see the same information repeatedly by many different submitters, a lot of people copy without verifying.

Answer 4

When people ask/answer this we often confuse ourselves with trying identify the 'purpose' as in; it's about reproduction or it's to help others, or it's to enjoy yourself to the fullest etc. People look for a reason for their existence as simply being here by accident and not having a wider 'purpose' seems pointless. So we translate the meaning of 'meaning' as a purpose. As someone who believes in God you could say i believe in a 'higher' purpose, but let's just suppose for a moment there was no purpose. That life had no meaning it wasn't created deliberately or accidently to serve any purpose or for any reason. Why would our particular organism have 'evolved' or developed so effectively in relation to our surroundings? Not to survive, the human race could sustain itself as an existence at a much lower level of development than we have today. We are unable to identify the meaning so we search for one. In space, in God, in love, war, drugs, alcohol, sport, the Oceans and so on, we are unable to accept the concept that we have no 'purpose' and so we create 'meaning' This may be a survival mechanism as without 'direction' 'meaning' and therefore 'purpose' we would go insane due to the complexity of the organism we have become and completely destroy ourselves. Perhaps the only thing stopping a final conflict is this thought that we must be here for a reason and if we destroy ourselves we wont be able to find out what it is. It is our insatiable curiousity that keeps us moving forward half hoping there is a 'purpose' and thgerfore a meaning and half dreading that we might find out what it is and be eternally disappionted. This is where Christians have an advantage over athiests because their purpose is to make the world a better place and suitable for the return of God/Jesus. If we fail in our mortal life time we are blessed with the chance to work through our spirt after death. An interesting example for us in the UK might be William Wilberforce, long after his death we still see the spirit of his ideals at work amongst us. The best example of all of course is therefore Jesus. If you want/need a meaning then using your position of priviledge to help those less fortunate than yourself is a very good place to start, personally I still remain a beginner in this area.

Answer 5

Look up "Haynes" "Haines" etc
Hines, I think is supposed to mean some kinda "hedged area"
Meaning deals with hedges, forests, etc

Also, search for "surname Hines" in the queries
prolly find a few sites other than ancestry.com...

Answer 6

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If you can read that, then you can speak Hines!