Origin of the name Hayse?

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Origin of the name Hayse?

I am looking for the origin of the name Hayse. I know other people with different spelling's but have not come across this spelling. Some spell it Hays, some Hayes.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Origins of those with the specific HAYSE spelling, according to ancestry.com would be Ireland, England/Great Britain, The Hague, Bavaria and Germany
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Info. below is from ancestry.com - According to their database HAYSE is a variant of HAYS or HAYES...lots of possible meaning are listed below.

Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic 㓠hAodha ??descendant of Aodh??, a personal name meaning ??fire?? (compare McCoy). In some cases, especially in County Wexford, the surname is of English origin (see below), having been taken to Ireland by the Normans.

English: habitational name from any of various places, for example in Devon and Worcestershire, so called from the plural of Middle English hay ??enclosure?? (see Hay 1), or a topographic name from the same word.

English: habitational name from any of various places, for example in Dorset, Greater London (formerly in Kent and Middlesex), and Worcestershire, so called from Old English h?se ??brushwood??, or a topographic name from the same word.

English: patronymic from Hay 3.

French: variant (plural) of Haye 3.

Jewish (Ashkenazic): metronymic from Yiddish name Khaye ??life?? + the Yiddish possessive suffix -s.