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Etymology
The etymology is uncertain. Some sources hypothesize that the place name is derived from from OE. Hæstingas Hæsta's people, the settlement of the family/followers of Hæsta, after the settlement of the eponymous area in England by the Danes; and that the family name is either derived from the place name, simply meaning one who came from Hastings, or derived in parallel from Hæstingas, simply meaning a descendant of one of Hæsta's people. Others state that the family name is from G., meaning swift one.

Whichever is the case for the place name in England, most of the later place names in other countries are derived either from the Hastings family name, being named either after people with that family name, or are derived from the earlier place name, being named after the town of Hastings in England directly.

References
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Hastings in 1838, accessed on 2005-05-16, which in turn cites
*History of Western Sussex, Dalaway
The Hastingas, accessed on 2005-05-16, which in turn cites
*The Sussex Landscape, Peter Brandon
Online Etymology dictionary entry for "Hastings", accessed on 2005-05-16
"Hastings" at BabyNamesWorld, accessed on 2005-05-16

Proper noun
Hastings

1. a family name
2. a place name

Category:English proper nouns

sr:Hastings

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