"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

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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.

See the link below

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

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/comconsumerp...

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.

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...

www.ancestry.com/facts/Hines-name-meanin...

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

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