Last name: HALSTEAD

Welcome at Geneanet!

Welcome at Geneanet!

With Geneanet, find your ancestors from home, create your family tree for free, and explore and share your family history. Genealogy has never been easier, thanks to our database of 9 billion individuals, and our community of enthusiasts.

All you have to know about the last name HALSTEAD

Last name frequency

HALSTEAD : This last name is indexed 50,252 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

HALSTEAD : English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): habitational name from any of various places bearing this name for example in Essex (Haltesteda in Domesday Book) Kent and Leicestershire all of which are probably named from Old English h(e)ald ‘refuge shelter’ + stede ‘site’ or possibly Hawstead in Suffolk which has the same origin. However the name is now most frequent in Lancashire and Yorkshire where it is from High Halstead in Burnley named as the ‘site of a hall’ from Middle English hal(le) + sted(des) stud(es) ‘hall buildings’ (Old English h(e)all ‘hall’ + stede ‘place’).

Learn more

Variants of last name

The spelling of names may have changed over the centuries. Knowing these names variants will help you build your family tree.

Search a name

Discover your ancestors and build your family tree step by step through billions of data included in our members' family trees and through civil records.

Most popular first names

Most indexed countries

Available collections for this name