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hastings Name Meaning and History

  1. 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).
  2. English: variant of Hasting.
  3. Irish (Connacht): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hOistín ‘descendant of Oistín’, the Gaelic form of Augustine (see Austin).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of hastings Families in the US in 1920
Number of hastings families
 196-389
 66-195		 1-65
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