The story
- Middle English · derived fromhaining“enclosure”
- English todayHanning
* As a Dutch and north/Low German surname, from a personal name Hanno, Hannen, itself from a short form of Johannes. * As a German surname, variant of Hannig. * As a Scottish and northern English surname, from several places called Haining, from Middle English haining (“enclosure”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.