Can anyone help me out with the "HASTINGS" name and where it originally came from?

Question

I know it's an English name from England but I have also been told it was originally from Ireland, O'Hastin? Is this true?

Answer 1

Hastings can be used as a first name coming from Old English, and according to my reference book, Brockhampton Reference, meant "territory of the violent ones".

So, I suppose it is possible that if one of your ancestors called Hastings as his first name, went to Ireland, his descendants would have been called O'Hastings.

Answer 2

This is what www.ancestry.com has to say about the name,

Hastings Name Meaning and History

English and Scottish: habitational name from Hastings, a place in Sussex, on the south coast of England, near which the English army was defeated by the Normans in 1066. It is named from Old English H?stingas ‘people of H?sta’. The surname was taken to Scotland under William the Lion in the latter part of the 12th century. It also assimilated some instances of the native Scottish surname Harestane (see Hairston).

English: variant of Hasting.

Irish (Connacht): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hOistín ‘descendant of Oistín’, the Gaelic form of Augustine (see Austin).

hope this helps.

Answer 3

Aloha from Down Unda!

Suspectin dat whoeva 'told' of O'Hastin may be pullin o'leg...

& considerin I live in an area called 'The Hastings, NSW', it's an easy effort to convey,

"Yes, someone can help, but we jes don't know WHO!"

Honestly, efforts to find the origins of 'Hastings' are like trackin down one of dem African Bank Scam Spam Managers or those UK Lottery Spam Scam Officials.   Oh well...

Best wishes~

Answer 4

It means the place of Haesta or Heast's people.

Answer 5

I dont know... Ive read it in English litterature alot.

By the way, Hastings is my boyfriends last name!! woot.

Answer 6

THIS IS VERY TRUE.FEW PEOPLE LIKE ME NOW THIS TOP SECRET.

Answer 7

Hatings is a place in Brtitain maybe the name was the mayor or someone who lived their ,,,,, maybe the founder

Answer 8

Hastings

(origin: Local) Derived from the borough of Hastings, in Sussex, England, which is memorable for the landing of William the Conqueror, and defeat and death of Harold II., in 1066. Camden derives this name from one Hastings, a Dane, a great robber, who either seized, or built, or fortified it. Somnerus derives it from the Saxon haeste, heat, because of the bubbling or boiling of the sea in that place; but as haste applies rather to voluntary beings, as men and other animals, the name more correctly signifies one who hurries, presses, drives; vehemency, quickness of motion

Answer 9

It's English, famous for the " Battle of Hastings".