''Hine'' is a surname deriving from

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Etymology

According to the ''

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'', the modern name ''Hine'' and its variants derive from the Middle English word ''hine'' (with the addition of the

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''-s'' case ending in forms like '' Hines'', implying that the name-bearer was the child of a father called ''Hine'', or addition of ''-s'' on the analogy of such names). This occupational name derives from

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''hīne'' ('household servant, farm labourer'), but in the Middle English period could also mean 'farm manager' and also be used of high-status people serving in a lordly household.

Distribution

Around 2011, there were 2899 bearers of the surname ''Hine'' in Great Britain and 21 in Ireland. In 1881, there were 2301 bearers of the name in Great Britain, concentrated in Devon.''The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland'', ed. by Patrick Hanks, Richard Coates, and Peter McClure, 4 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), II, p. 1290 .v. ''Hine'' .

People

''Hine'' may refer to : * Charles DeLano Hine (1867–1927), American civil engineer *

Deirdre Hine Dame Deirdre Joan Hine DBE FFPH FRCP FLSW (née Curran; born 16 September 1937) is a Welsh medical doctor. In 1984 she began her career as a public health physician in Wales. She was chair of the Commission for Health Improvement from 1999 t ...

(born 1937), Welsh medical doctor *

Edward Hine Edward Hine (10 February 1825 – 15 October 1891) was an influential proponent of British Israelism in the 1870s and 1880s, drawing on the earlier work of Richard Brothers (1794) and John Wilson (1840). Hine went as far as to conclude that "It i ...

(1825–1891), proponent of British Israelism in the 19th century *

George Thomas Hine George Thomas Hine FRIBA (1842–25 April 1916) was an English architect. His prolific output included new county asylums for Hertfordshire, Lincolnshire, Surrey, East Sussex and Worcestershire, as well as extensive additions to many others. Bi ...

, son of Thomas Chambers Hine, architect *

Lewis Hine Lewis Wickes Hine (September 26, 1874 – November 3, 1940) was an American sociologist and muckraker photographer. His photographs were instrumental in bringing about the passage of the first child labor laws in the United States. Early life ...

(1874–1940), American sociologist * Nicholas Hine, a character in the ''Sharpe'' novels of Bernard Cornwell *

Nick Hine Vice Admiral Sir Nicholas William Hine, (born 4 February 1966) is a retired senior Royal Navy officer. He served as Second Sea Lord from 2019 to 2022. Early life and education Hine was born on 4 February 1966 in Carlisle, Cumberland, England. ...

(born 1966), British Royal Navy officer * Milton B. Hine (1828–1881), American politician *

Reginald Hine Reginald Leslie Hine (25 September 1883 – 14 April 1949) FSA, FRHS was a solicitor and historian whose writings centred on the market-town of Hitchin in Hertfordshire and its environs. He committed suicide in 1949 by jumping in front of a t ...

(1883–1949), solicitor and historian * Robert V. Hine (1921–2015), American historian *

Sonny Hine Hubert "Sonny" Hine (January 9, 1931 – March 17, 2000) was an American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred horse trainer best known as the trainer of 1998 U.S. Horse of the Year, Skip Away. Early life Hine was born in The Bronx, New York, the son of ...

(1931–2000), American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred horse trainer * Thomas Hine & Co., a manufacturer of cognac *

Thomas Chambers Hine Thomas Chambers Hine (31 May 1813 – 6 February 1899) was an architect based in Nottingham. Background He was born in Covent Garden into a prosperous middle-class family, the eldest son of Jonathan Hine (1780–1862), a hosiery manufacturer an ...

(1813-1899), architect

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