Hyde

• 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.

• IPA^(key): /haɪd/
• Homophone: hide
• Rhymes: -aɪd

Hyde (countable and uncountable, plural Hydes)

1. An English topographic surname from Middle English for someone living on a hide of land.
2. A number of places in England:
   1. A civil parish in Central Bedfordshire, Bedfordshire. [1]
   2. A hamlet in Minchinhampton parish, Stroud district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref SO8801). [2]
   3. A town in the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside, Greater Manchester (formerly in Cheshire).
   4. A small village and civil parish in New Forest district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU1612).
   5. A suburb of Winchester, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU4830). [3]
   6. A hamlet in Swindon borough, Wiltshire, probably in Blunsdon parish (OS grid ref SU1589). [4]
3. A census-designated place in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, United States.
4. An unincorporated community in Ridgeway, Iowa County, Wisconsin, United States.
5. A rural locality in Otago, New Zealand, between Middlemarch and Ranfurly. [5]

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Hyde”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 220.

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