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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish : possibly a nickname from Middle English hende ‘courteous’ (see Hendy), or an occupational name for a deer-keeper, from Middle English hind ‘female deer’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metronymic from the female personal name Hinde.

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