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Hyde.

An English topographic surname from Middle English for someone living on a hide of land.

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Meaning & usage

name/haɪd/

  1. An English topographic surname from Middle English for someone living on a hide of land.

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  2. A number of places in England: A civil parish in Central Bedfordshire district, Bedfordshire.

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  3. A number of places in England: A hamlet in Minchinhampton parish, Stroud district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref SO8801).

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  4. A number of places in England: A town in the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside, Greater Manchester (formerly in Cheshire).

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  5. A number of places in England: A small village and civil parish in New Forest district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU1612).

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  6. A number of places in England: A suburb of Winchester, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU4830).

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  7. A number of places in England: A hamlet in Swindon borough, Wiltshire, probably in Blunsdon parish (OS grid ref SU1589).

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  8. A census-designated place in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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  9. An unincorporated community in Ridgeway, Iowa County, Wisconsin, United States.

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  10. A rural locality in Otago, New Zealand, between Middlemarch and Ranfurly.

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Where this word comes from

* As an English surname, from the root of hide (“measure of land”). * Also as an English surname, spelling variant of Ide. * As a Jewish surname, Americanized from Haid.

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