Hyndman is a Scottish surname.

Origins

The surname Hyndman has two origins. First, it may be an

occupational surname In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several give ...

, either from 'farm labourer' + , or a variant of . Second, it may have originated from a

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, possibly 'courteous' + . Variant spellings include Hindman. Early records of bearers of the surname include a Hector Hyndman of Renfewshire in the ''

Exchequer Rolls of Scotland The Exchequer Rolls of Scotland (Latin:) are historic records of the Scottish Exchequer dating from 1326 to 1708. The accounts were the responsibility of the Comptroller of Scotland. The National Records of Scotland also has corresponding precepts ...

'' for 1553. The

Scottish Register of Tartans The Scottish Register of Tartans (SRT) is Scotland's official non-ministerial government department for the recording and registration of tartan designs, operating since 5 February 2009. As a governmental body, SRT is headquartered at General ...

lists three

tartan Tartan or plaid ( ) is a patterned cloth consisting of crossing horizontal and vertical bands in multiple colours, forming repeating symmetrical patterns known as ''setts''. Originating in woven wool, tartan is most strongly associated wi ...

s for families named Hyndman. Two are restricted tartans: one for the family of Captain Henry Hyndman (1785–1849), the son of an

East India Company The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company that was founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to Indian Ocean trade, trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (South A ...

colonel who settled in

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; the other for the family of Daniel Hyndman in

Edinburgh Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 Council areas of Scotland, council areas. The city is located in southeast Scotland and is bounded to the north by the Firth of Forth and to the south by the Pentland Hills. Edinburgh ...

and

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. The third, created for C. P. Hyndman (stated to be "the first Hyndman to record arms in the Lyon Register since 1672"), has a design chosen to reflect his family's association with the

Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers was an Ireland, Irish line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 until 1968. The regiment was formed in 1881 by the amalgamation of the 27th (Inniskilling) Regiment of Foot and the 108th (Ma ...

and the town of Paisley, and by C. P. Hyndman's wishes is available for all bearers of the surname born in

Northern Ireland Northern Ireland ( ; ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland. It has been #Descriptions, variously described as a country, province or region. Northern Ireland shares Repub ...

Statistics

The

1881 United Kingdom census The United Kingdom Census of 1881 recorded the people residing in every household on the night of Sunday 3 April 1881, and was the fifth of the Census in the United Kingdom, UK censuses to include details of household members. Data recorded Detail ...

found 338 bearers of the surname Hyndman, primarily in the west of Scotland. Statistics compiled by

Patrick Hanks Patrick Wyndham Hanks (24 March 1940 – 1 February 2024) was an English lexicographer, corpus linguist, and onomastician. He edited dictionaries of general language, as well as dictionaries of personal names. Background Hanks was educated a ...

on the basis of the

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and

2011 Ireland census Eleven or 11 may refer to: *11 (number) * One of the years 11 BC, AD 11, 1911, 2011 Literature * ''Eleven'' (novel), a 2006 novel by British author David Llewellyn *''Eleven'', a 1970 collection of short stories by Patricia Highsmith *''Eleven'', ...

showed 718 bearers of the surname on the island of

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and 367 on the island of

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. In the United States, the 2010 Census found 1,054 people with the surname Hyndman, making it the 23,943rd-most-common surname in the country. This represented an increase from 1,038 (22,999th-most-common) in the 2000 Census. In both censuses, roughly nine-tenths of people with this surname identified as

non-Hispanic White Non-Hispanic Whites, also referred to as White Anglo Americans or Non-Latino Whites, are White Americans who are classified by the United States census as "White" and not of Hispanic or Latino origin. According to annual estimates from the Unit ...

, and roughly six percent as non-Hispanic Black or African American.

People

* Abigail Hyndman (born 1990), British Virgin Islands beauty pageant titleholder * Alex Hyndman (born 1978), British broadcast journalist * Alicia Hyndman (born 1971), American education administrator and member of the New York State Assembly *

Alonzo Hyndman Alonzo Bowen Hyndman (28 July 1890 – 9 April 1940) was a Canadian physician and politician. Hyndman was a Conservative and National Government member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in South Mountain, Ontario and became a ...

(1890–1940), Canadian physician and member of Parliament * Bill Hyndman (1915–2001), American amateur golfer * Catherine Hyndman (born 1990), Northern Irish footballer * Cherry Crawford Hyndman (1768-1845), Belfast woman reputedly a member of the republican Society of United Irishmen * Chris Hyndman (1966–2015), Canadian interior decorator and television personality * Clint Hyndman (), drummer for Australian band Something for Kate * Emerson Hyndman (born 1996), American association football (soccer) player *

Frederick Walter Hyndman Frederick Walter Hyndman (February 13, 1904 – October 12, 1995) was an insurance company executive and political figure on Prince Edward Island. He served as the 18th Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island from March 1958 to August 19 ...

(1904–1995), Canadian insurance company executive and governor of Prince Edward Island * George Crawford Hyndman (1796–1867), Irish auctioneer * Harry Hyland Hyndman (1920–1963), Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario *

Henry Hyndman Henry Mayers Hyndman (; 7 March 1842 – 22 November 1921) was an English writer, politician and socialist. Originally a conservative, he was converted to socialism by Karl Marx's ''Communist Manifesto'' and launched Britain's first socialist p ...

(1842–1921), English socialist theoretician * James Hyndman (politician) (1874–1971), Canadian lawyer and justice of the Supreme Court of Alberta *

James Hyndman (actor) James Hyndman (born April 23, 1962, in Bonn, West Germany) is a Canadian television, film and stage actor. He is best known for his roles in the television series '' Rumeurs'', for which he won a Gémeaux Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series ...

(born 1962), Canadian actor * John Hyndman (1723–1762), Church of Scotland minister * Karine Gonthier-Hyndman (born 1984), Canadian actress from Quebec * Kelley Hyndman (born 1985), American tennis player *

Lou Hyndman Louis Davies Hyndman, (July 1, 1935 – November 24, 2013) was a Canadian lawyer and politician from Alberta. He served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for 19 years and was a member of Premier Peter Lougheed and Don Getty's ...

(1935–2013), Canadian lawyer and member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta *

Mike Hyndman Michael Anthony Hyndman (born December 8, 1945, in Quebec City, Quebec) is a Canadian former ice hockey right winger who played in the World Hockey Association for the New England Whalers and the Los Angeles Sharks. Hyndman spent two seasons in ...

(born 1945), Canadian ice hockey player * Peter Hyndman (1941–2006), Canadian lawyer and member of the British Columbia Legislative Assembly * Rob J. Hyndman (born 1967), Australian statistician * Robert Stewart Hyndman (1915–2009), Canadian painter *

Schellas Hyndman Schellas Hyndman (born November 4, 1951) is a retired soccer coach. He was previously head coach of FC Dallas in Major League Soccer. Despite having a limited career as a professional athlete, Hyndman is one of the most successful college socc ...

(born 1951), American association football (soccer) coach * William Hyndman (baseball) (1854–1920), American baseball player

References

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