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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : topographic name from Middle English hay, hey ‘hay’ + croft ‘field attached to a house’, ‘paddock’, or a habitational name from a minor place named with these elements, such as Haycroft in Swyncombe, Oxfordshire or Haycroft in Gloucestershire.

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