The haigh Surname
haigh Name Meaning and History
English (chiefly Yorkshire): topographic name for someone who lived
by a hedged or fenced enclosure (Old English haga), or a
habitational name from a place named with this word (or its Old Norse
cognate hagi), especially three places called Haigh, two in
West Yorkshire and the other near Manchester.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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