The Hayward surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 15,665 people carried this name — #2,327 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 18,800 people counted. That is up 4% from 15,044 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Hayward surname
A surname originating as an occupation.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Hayward» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
44 people named Hayward live in Switzerland.
They live in 6 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Vaud.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 33 people named Hayward live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Tucumán.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 31 people named Hayward.
Most of them — 22 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 5 départements, most often Paris.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Poland’s population register
21 people named Hayward have a registered home in Poland.
Of the 48 in Poland’s national register, these are the ones with a permanent address on file. They live in 5 of Poland’s 16 voivodeships, most of all in Lublin.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
PESEL register, Ministry of Digital Affairs of Poland (dane.gov.pl) — CC0 · living people by voivodeship of permanent residence, 20 January 2026.
In the Nordic population registers
69 people named Hayward is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
Among the farmers of England and Wales, 1880s
Hayward was found among the farmers of 9 counties.
It was most frequent in Suffolk: 34 in every 10,000 farmers there — about 1 in 294. Guppy counted the farmers listed in each county’s directory and recorded a name only where it reached about 7 in every 10,000; where it does not appear, it was rarer than that, not absent.
Where it concentrates, on the mapPer 10,000 farmers, by county
And 1 more county.
H. B. Guppy, «Homes of Family Names in Great Britain» (London, 1890), alphabetical list of English and Welsh names — public domain · farmers in Kelly’s Post Office Directories of the 1880s, per 10,000 farmers in each county.
In Scotland’s registers today
Hayward was recorded 11 times in Scotland’s registers of births, marriages and deaths in 2025.
That made it the 1788th most common name in those registers, shared with others on the same count. In 1975, the first year of the series, the count was 12. Each birth counts the child’s surname, each marriage both partners’ and each death the surname of the person who died — a yearly count of registrations, not of the people who live in Scotland.
National Records of Scotland, «Most Common Surnames, 2025» (published 26 May 2026): every surname recorded 10 or more times in the 2025 registers, and the series from 1975 · different spellings are counted separately — © Crown copyright 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
In the first U.S. census, 1790
118 families named Hayward, or a close spelling, were counted in 1790.
Each family is counted by its head. About 726 people lived in those households, 6.2 to a family on average. The table counts it together with 3 other spellings. The table lists white heads of families only, in the twelve states whose 1790 records survive; Virginia’s figures come from state lists of 1782–1785.
Families, by state
U.S. Census Bureau, «A Century of Population Growth from the First Census of the United States to the Twelfth, 1790–1900» (Washington, 1909), table 111, p. 244 — public domain · names carried by at least 100 white persons in 1790.
In print
Hayward in American newspapers,
1888–1902.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 5,363 pages in all carry the name.
In print
Hayward in Australian newspapers,
1810s–2000s.
57,369 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Hayward. The most, 9,335, date from the 1910s. South Australia has the most articles, but weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, the name stands out most in Western Australia, at 2.6 times its expected share.
Articles, by state
Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Hayward.
Who carried it
People named Hayward,
with a public archive behind them.
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Lemuel Hayward 1748–1821
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Sarah Savage Hayward 1757–1781 -
Sarah Henshaw Hayward 1768–1849 -
George Hayward 1791–1863 · teacher -
Abraham Hayward 1801–1884 · writer
Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 243 lives in all are documented under this name.
In the public record
People named Hayward,
in the records of 7 countries.
Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.
United States1,982 records
- New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 521
- U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 467
- Other U.S. records 994
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Example: U.S. registration card, 1942 Military record Armond E. HaywardBorn 1926 in Maryland. Enlisted 1944 at Baltimore; farmer from Dorchester County. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1996, buried at Dorchester Memorial Park, Cambridge, Maryland.
U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) -
Example: U.S. war memorial War record Arnold Courtney HaywardBorn 1932; from Trenton, New Jersey. U.S. Army, infantry unit commander; killed in action 1969 in Thua Thien, South Vietnam.
U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain) -
Example: passenger manifest, 1903 Passenger record Henry HaywardArrived at New York in 1892 aboard the Aurania from Liverpool and Queenstown, aged 42; brush maker. From London, England; bound for New York.
U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted)
Showing 3 of 1,982 records for Hayward in the United States.
Counts: NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · U.S. National Archives, Famine Irish Passenger Records (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain) · Sacramento County, Historic Burials (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain).
Australia1,824 records
- Victoria passenger lists, 1839–1923 935
- Victoria wills and probate, deaths to 2001 315
- Other Australian records 574
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Example: probate petition, 1848 Probate record Charles Henry HaywardDied 1916 in France, Tasmania. Will registered in Tasmania in 1917.
Libraries Tasmania, Tasmanian Names Index (CC BY 4.0) -
Example: marriage register, 1911 Marriage record William HaywardApplied for permission to marry in Van Diemen's Land in 1853. Married 1853 in Hobart, Tasmania, aged 25.
Libraries Tasmania, Tasmanian Names Index (CC BY 4.0) -
Pictured: convicts going on board a prison ship, 1829 Transportation record Joseph HaywardTransported to New South Wales aboard the Moffatt, arriving 1836; ticket of leave 1842.
Museums of History NSW – State Archives Collection (CC BY)
Showing 3 of 1,824 records for Hayward in Australia.
Counts: Public Record Office Victoria (CC BY 4.0) · Queensland State Archives (CC BY 4.0) · Libraries Tasmania, Tasmanian Names Index (CC BY 4.0) · Museums of History NSW – State Archives Collection (CC BY) · State Library of Western Australia (CC BY 4.0) · ACT Government, Transport Canberra and City Services (CC BY 4.0) · National Library of Scotland, War Office Weekly Casualty Lists (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Petition to the probate court, St. Louis, 1848, Missouri Historical Society (public domain); Marriage register, Tilburg, 1911, Regionaal Archief Tilburg (public domain); Prison-ship in Portsmouth Harbour, with the convicts going on board, etching by Edward William Cooke, 1829, Royal Museums Greenwich (public domain).
Canada310 records
- Nova Scotia Archives name indexes 200
- Canadian Virtual War Memorial 30
- Other Canadian records 80
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Example: Canadian cemetery Burial record John Walter HaywardBuried in 1981 at Mount Hermon Cemetery, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, aged 74.
Halifax Regional Municipality. Contains information licenced under the Open Government Licence—Halifax. -
Example: Canadian cemetery Burial record Percy HaywardDied 1972, aged 82; buried at St. Vital Cemetery, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
City of Winnipeg. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Winnipeg. -
Example: civil register, 1880 Death record Harold HaywardDied 1952 in Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.
Nova Scotia Archives. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Nova Scotia.
Showing 3 of 310 records for Hayward in Canada.
Counts: Nova Scotia Archives. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Nova Scotia. · Veterans Affairs Canada. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada. · City of Winnipeg. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Winnipeg. · City of Vancouver. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Vancouver. · City of Calgary. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – City of Calgary. · Halifax Regional Municipality. Contains information licenced under the Open Government Licence—Halifax. · National Library of Scotland, War Office Weekly Casualty Lists (public domain) · City of Niagara Falls. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Niagara Falls. · Archives of Ontario. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario. · Contains information provided by the City of Waterloo under licence. Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Fairview Lawn Cemetery, Halifax, photo by Edgar El (CC BY 3.0); Civil register, Berlin, 1880, Landesarchiv Berlin (CC0).
New Zealand122 records
- Christchurch City cemetery records 88
- Thames-Coromandel District cemetery records 25
- Other New Zealand records 9
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Example: burial register, 1858 Burial record Stanley Wilson HaywardDied 1950, aged 67; buried at Ruru Lawn, Christchurch, Canterbury.
Christchurch City Council (CC BY 4.0) -
Example: burial register, 1858 Burial record Perree HaywardDied 1987, aged 42; buried at Totara Memorial Park Cemetery, Thames-Coromandel District, Waikato.
Thames-Coromandel District Council (CC BY 4.0) -
Example: roll of the war dead War record R. HaywardLance Corporal, New Zealand Mounted Rifles. Listed among the dead in the War Office casualty list of 1918.
National Library of Scotland, War Office Weekly Casualty Lists (public domain)
Showing 3 of 122 records for Hayward in New Zealand.
Counts: Christchurch City Council (CC BY 4.0) · Thames-Coromandel District Council (CC BY 4.0) · Marlborough District Council (CC BY 4.0) · National Library of Scotland, War Office Weekly Casualty Lists (public domain) · Waimakariri District Council (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Burial register of Newtown, Montgomeryshire, 1858, National Library of Wales (CC0); Livre d’or of the war dead, Paris, Ministère des pensions, Archives nationales (CC0).
United Kingdom112 records
- War Office casualty lists, 1917–1919, among the dead 93
- St James's burial ground, Euston (London), 1789–1853 12
- Other British records 7
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Example: burial register, 1858 Burial record Henry HaywardBuried in 1978 at Ballengeich Cemetery, Stirling, Scotland, aged 81.
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Example: probate petition, 1848 Probate record Joseph William HaywardWill proved in 1941; of Edmonton, London.
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Example: roll of honour, 1914–1919 War record A. HaywardLondon Regiment. Listed among the dead in the War Office casualty list of 1919.
National Library of Scotland, War Office Weekly Casualty Lists (public domain)
Showing 3 of 112 records for Hayward in the United Kingdom.
Counts: National Library of Scotland, War Office Weekly Casualty Lists (public domain) · MOLA and HS2, St James's burial ground data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. · National Library of Wales, Wills Index Cards (CC0) · Stirling Council. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Burial register of Newtown, Montgomeryshire, 1858, National Library of Wales (CC0); Petition to the probate court, St. Louis, 1848, Missouri Historical Society (public domain); C. & E. Morton Ltd roll of honour, 1914–1919, photo by Adrian S Pye via Geograph (CC BY-SA 2.0).
Netherlands16 records
- Dutch population registers 11
- Dutch civil registers (births, marriages, deaths) 5
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Example: marriage register, 1911 Marriage record John George HaywardMarried in 1918 in Groningen; clerk.
Open Archives, Groninger Archieven (CC BY 4.0) -
Example: civil register, 1880 Death record Philip John Henri HaywardDied 1882 in Leeuwarden, aged 62.
Open Archives, AlleFriezen (CC BY 4.0) -
Example: civil register, 1880 Birth record Benjamin Triphook HaywardBorn 1850 in Alkmaar.
Open Archives, Regionaal Archief Alkmaar (CC BY 4.0)
Showing 3 of 16 records for Hayward in the Netherlands.
Counts: Open Archives (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Marriage register, Tilburg, 1911, Regionaal Archief Tilburg (public domain); Civil register, Berlin, 1880, Landesarchiv Berlin (CC0).
France9 records
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Example: French death register, 1930 Death record Henry HaywardBorn 1905 in Paris; died 1989 in Sierentz (Haut-Rhin).
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Example: French death register, 1930 Death record Nelly Lucienne Hortense HaywardBorn 1921 in Bruay-la-Buissière; died 1995 in Bruay-la-Buissière (Pas-de-Calais).
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Example: French death register, 1930 Death record Laurence Maneck HaywardBorn 1912 in India; died 1995 in Poitiers (Vienne).
Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte)
Showing 3 of 9 records for Hayward in France.
Counts: Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Death register of Nice, 1930, Archives départementales des Alpes-Maritimes (public domain).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Hayward.
- Haygood 4,536 · U.S. census
- Hayman 4,945 · U.S. census
- Haynes 85,974 · U.S. census
- Haynie 6,400 · U.S. census
- Hayon 146 · U.S. census
- Hays 34,191 · U.S. census
- Haywood 18,360 · U.S. census
- Haza 131 · U.S. census
- Hazan 819 · U.S. census
- Hazard 4,054 · U.S. census
- Haze 453 · U.S. census
- Hazel 7,711 · U.S. census
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